The bottom line, Prof. Weisberg told me, is that creativity goes back in many ways to the basics. “You have to immerse yourself in a discipline before you create in that discipline. It is built on a foundation of learning the discipline, which is what your music teacher was requiring of you.”
via ‘Strings Attached’ Co-Author Offers Solutions for Education – WSJ.
Good article. The science of why is as interesting as the book.