DIRECTORY OF PREVIOUS COLUMNS--first is newest

*****just added--10: BE FREE, SMART & CREATIVE
9: "A Passion for Pixels"--Show on Long Island
8: Software, Hard Heads
7: Low Tech Meets High Tech
6: The State of Digital Art 2007--DON ARCHER Speaks
5: Big Shots Ignore Columnist (Yo, what's up with digital?)
4: What About Algorithms, Fractals And Programmed Art??
3: Death To Photoshop????? What!!!!!
2: Already Twelve Kinds Of Digital Art
(earliest) 1: What’s All This Talk About Digital Art?

10: LET'S ALL BE FREE, SMART, AND CREATIVE

I put a short piece on Creativity-Portal.com that explores the link between freedom, creativity and education...

I'm sure you could be a great musician without knowing how to read. You could probably be a great painter without much schooling. But I want to push the thesis that, for most people most of the time, education is primal. The more education the better, no matter whether you are creating art or appreciating art. Facts, wild and crazy, are often the best inspiration of all.

Furthermore, we can’t have a free society if we have a dumb society.

Here are the two most astonishing things to me: our public schools specialize in dumbing people down. Our myopic media specialize in pretending not to notice!

Both of these things are dangerous to the future of our country. I urge everyone to take a greater interest in education, to learn more about the issues and jargon. Here’s a good place to start: “41: Educators, O. J. Simpson, and Guilt” on Improve-Education.org.

Job One: let’s liberate the public schools from the anti-intellectuals who control the Education Establishment.