As widely observed, educators, politicians and the masses support imagination. However, when it comes to the controversy about whether imagination is more important than knowledge, as far as I am concerned, knowledge plays a more influential part in one’s creativity than imagination does.

    Admittedly, imagination provides inspiration for one’s creativity. For instance, imagination led to many scientific revolutions. As people came up with the idea to utilize the energy of vapor for industrial production, Watt improved the design and invented steam-powered machines, which transformed the world. Imagination, if practical, may lead to innovations beneficial to society.

    However, without knowledge, imagination would not even be practical in the first place. In medieval times, people imagined that there was something that could be transformed into gold; thus, the subject of alchemy took shape. Alchemists spent tremendous amount of time working on this goal, but, expectedly, no one succeeded. It was not until years later that people finally found out the conservative principle of science and realized that such imagination was merely a fantasy.

    Although creativity is the combination of imagination and knowledge, it is knowledge that renders ideas feasible.

    In conclusion, although imagination should surely be promoted and adds diversity to our lives, knowledge is of more fundamental significance to us. Only with knowledge can we have a better and more reasonable imagination.