Creativity is an inborn birthright that social imperatives suppress

Evidence

The important thing for me is facilitating a community of creative interest. Creativity is inborn—a birthright that is often suppressed by social imperatives. I try in my classes to open the gates so that the creative spirit of the students can flourish. I do this through listening and encouraging listening, sharing and discussion. My students listen by doing field recording, then sharing their files to make pieces. The students also keep journals of their listening experiences. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 420

The important thing for me is facilitating a community of creative interest. Creativity is inborn—a birthright that is often suppressed by social imperatives. I try in my classes to open the gates so that the creative spirit of the students can flourish. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 420

Categorization

• SEED: A pedagogy angle: how listening-centered, non-instilling classrooms can ‘open gates’ for creativity as a teaching method for artists and students.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader theme that listening education can restore suppressed innate capacities, aligning with earlier chapters on deep listening as re-perception. — connects to: Intelligence develops from environment and experience rather than genetic inheritance; Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54; Astute taste in others excludes what creativity requires — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1332 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 420

Broader Connections

• Intelligence develops from environment and experience rather than genetic inheritance #contradicts (0.90)
• Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity #contradicts (0.90) — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54
• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10
• Society presupposes a harmony between its structure and individual inner callings #contradicts (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 191
• Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them #exemplifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #qualifies (0.75)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #expands (0.72)