Thinking on "Rethinking Thinking"

I enjoyed this article. I like most of the points they raise about feeling/thinking, and they explain their argument in various ways which are all relatively easy to follow -- this can be a very confusing and difficult concept to communicate.

However, I disagree with a couple of their main claims -- specifically, the statement that teachers "ignore the metalogics of feelings and intuition. We are taught and tested with words and numbers, and it is assumed that we think in words and numbers." Personally, I have witnessed this idea addressed in many of my classes over the course of my academic career. For instance, in my junior English class in high school we spent over half of a quarter analyzing and responding to texts pertaining to this idea of feelings leading to ideas leading to translatable concepts.

Also, I disagree with the statement that "We master the languages of translation but neglect our mother tongue. Feasts are set before us that we do not taste. We honor chefs and refuse to emulate them." It is true that, for the most part, how we are taught is through the translation of other people's creative thoughts and feelings, but I believe that the act of generating "novel ideas and conceptions" is something that all people do inherently; I believe it cannot be taught or manipulated in the manner this author seems to advocate but that it simply is. The lessons we learn in school -- the translation of these other "chefs'" creative thoughts -- help to broaden the scope of our creative thinking; they provide more food for our own creative thought.