Spacial Creativity and Education

After reading an article on Spacial Creativity I have reached to conclusions:

1) I now understand the purposes of PatternBlocks

2) Either I was extremely lucky or my mother knew where she was sending me to school (I'm inclined to think the latter.

1) Spacial Creativity is the term used to define how people use "space" as a tool in their thought processes. The greatest mechanical genius of our time, Nicola Tesla, was known to be able to determine whether an idea he had for a machine would work or not without even building it by thinking of how the parts would be put together, and then testing out the results in his head.

Genius like this still exists in our world, but often goes unnoticed because the basis of the testing structure of education in the United States is firmly set in writing and math skills. While these are all fine and good, those children who are gifted in spacial creativity often fair worse in literature and basic mathematics.

Which is why some of the kids in Aerisolphal's class love her PatternBlocks. Gwen specifically can do absolutely mind-blowing things with the six simple shapes these blocks provide. In fact, PatternBlocks are one of only two things that I know of which can actively test children for spacial creativity, the other being Tetris.

2) There is no doubt in my mind that education in spacial creativity is something that ought to be harnessed by the public school system, and then I have to remember that some schools have.

The primary example I know of being the Montessori System. Montessori has dozens of simple ways to read the spacial creativity of a child's mind, while at the same time applying and improving upon it. My k-8 years were spent at a Montessori school and it was definitely the place where an imaginative child belonged, as the system allowed almost ANYTHING to be applied to learning.

I believe it was Edison who said "Invention requires only imagination and a pile of junk." If this is true, then school ought to be taught at garage sales.

Who agrees?