China Says Pollution Helping Kids Use Imagination
"I'm picturing the Forbidden City behind me!"
China's Ministry of Education released some very encouraging numbers last week, showing significant increases in imagination all throughout its major cities.
According to indicators tracking the Imagination Quality Index, spikes in creative thoughts in the minds of children have registered at consistently high levels over the past decade or so primarily due to industrialization and the "recanvasing" of China skies.
"We have given our children a gift," reported a high level official Xi He. "The dark gray canvas that we have stretched across the horizon offers kids the perfect opportunity to paint ideas in whatever color or hue their creativity suggests."
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