It is often said that creativity is more important than knowledge because a large number of human inventions such as the Internet, the computer, and the cars have been made through creativity. However, I believe that knowledge is more crucial than creativity for two reasons. First, knowledge which is based on creativity cannot be overlooked. Second, knowledge is directly correlated for the future career.
To begin with, creativity excluding knowledge is useless. This is because even thought creativity has played significant role in developing human inventions, it can be practical only when it meets the set of basic principal, facts, and knowledge. For example, when I was in high school, we were assigned a project of a building a model. Jun Kim, one of my classmates, made a flower-shaped model while others came up with ordinary-shaped. His model was unique and beautiful. However, right after construction it felt apart because he did not know about a basis of construction. If he had made it in actuality, it would have ended up detrimental disasters causing a lot of lose.
In addition, knowledge is more related to future career directly. It is obvious that creativity is supposed to be subjective but specific knowledge such as language skills is rather objective. Thus, to be judged well, these day people focus more on developing specific knowledge rather than creativity. For example, according to the Ministry of Labor of Korea in 2007, now day companies want to hire well-rounded workers such as people who have a language skills and computer skills . Actually, applicant’s score on employee examination and GPA took up more than 80 percent of the job qualification. This shows that students should be well equipped with specific knowledge rather than creativity.
In brief, I strongly believe that the importance of knowledge cannot be underestimated for two reasons that I mentioned above. First, creativity without knowledge is useless. Second, equipping with knowledge is directly related to future career. All in all, to survive in competitive society, having specific knowledge is more valuable.
(혹시 가능하시다면 이정도로만 쓰면 적어도 몇점은 나오겠다--;; 라는 코멘트 같은 것도 감사히 받겠습니다^^. |