<p>Here is an essay on a topic from sparknotes, I completed in like 23 minutes. I am not sure it is even good enough to earn 3, however I<code>d like to hear some comments on it. I</code>m taking the December sat and i`m trying to improve my skills. This is the 3rd essay i have written so far. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge
Vivid imagination has always been crucial to the human progress. Knowledge is important but imagination is the thing that ensures the progress.
In contemporary world millions of people complete their higher education every year. Undoubtedly, they all have knowledges in the sphere they are educated, and many of them are probably very well informed in many other fields but this doesn`t mean they change the world in any way. Most of those people just find jobs after they graduate, work, make money and live well. This is good but it just doesn`t make them great people. It makes them average people with average lifes and average standard. One day they die and the story is over.
On the other hand, the greatest inventors and artists were always people of great imagination. Let`s take for example Mendel. He was a priest and lived in a remote church. He was definitely not the most educated person of his time. He just sawed his pea seeds and carefully recorded what came of them. It might seem like a weird way to waste time to the "busy" people of knowledge who are always working, however, his imagination helped him start a new field in the Biology, and he never even strived to do that. And there are many more examples in this principle in science. It is not the knowledgeable who do the important thing, but the people with great imagination.
Imagination is a crucial point in the arts. For example Vinsent Van Gogh. He started drawing at the age of 25. He never had a formal training in the field but became a great artist. He started drawing while he was living in a coal-miners` village. He was very ill when he first started to make some sketches. Later on he found out that drawing is what he really wants to do in life and little by little started to improve his techniques. He imagined what it should be like and just did it. At the later periods of his life he became so eccentric that he cut his ear. Vincent Van Gogh is the perfect example of a person with imagination and no formal training in his field. However the lack of knowledge didn`t stump him, on the contrary- it made him find out for himself what he needed to know and thus allowed him to become one of the worlds greatest artists.
Knowledges are important in life and they can make us better people but it is the imagination that really makes the world different.
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