French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.
French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.

Similar Roland Barthes quotes:
Other Creativity :
- Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
- A conclusive mind cannot be a creative mind.
- Creativity is unguided freedom
- Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it’s like a candy shop.
- The first step to solving your problem is admitting that you have one.
- Creativity is all about CRAZY-tivity!
- That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
- A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.
- Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.
- To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
- Striving to be original gets in the way of being original.
- Creativity involves having curiosity and wanting to find what is better.
- Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.
- Most people who were educated have become the problems instead of problem solvers.
- Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.
- Every child is an artist.
- Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- When in despair… when in fear… when in doubt… make something.
- I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.