Strawaberry Fields Forever (Imagine, if you can)

Sam, SAm, SAM! Let go of competition for once
and consider the complementary nature of "SACS"
and "creativity", as you put it.
 
Dear Laura,
 
In the name of Sustainability, I  persist in playing one-sided
ping-pong:  half-a-loafer bettern  none & we both know
scholarship is “leisure-time” activity —not for everyone
but maybe everybody here  is not everyone..  
 
SACS industrial commitment to quality-control & regulation
is like the  black  plastic the garden crew throws over the
straw berry patch—holes cut for each plant so that  nothing
but well formed fragaria  are nurtured and  nourished forever.
 
No  aster, bedstraw, bittercress,
bull thistle, burdock , chicory,
curled dock, cut-leaved evening
primrose, daisy fleabane, false
dandelion,  greenbriar, giant
ragweed,  henbit, honeysuckle,
jimson, Johnson, knotweed, lambs
quarters, moth mullein, mouse-ear
chickweed, mugwort, prickly pear,
nimble will, morning glory, quack
grass, pennycress, prostrate pig
weed, trumpetcreeper, velvetleaf,
wild turnip  or yellow rocket
            need apply
  
Makes good sense for science-training (if not science):
aims, goals, and measurable outcomes so as to  be
learning the disciplinary practice: of conventions:
something like producing  marketable strawberries
Local food: shrink-wrapped..Clear. Consistent.
Coherent.  

Research values diabolically opposed to
Insearch  values (say) & (lord have mercy)
the Idiotic values Expression
(L. idios: personal, private, unique, original)
 
Competitive, yes, and yet cooperative:  distinct,
“hostile” values which, if embraced equally are,
as you say: complementary.

Complementarity depends on the mutual
reciprocating relationship of the two “cultures” –
C P.Snow’s   version of Gary Hawkins 2 economies)
assuming  one doesn't collapse the two into one
Dominant Pair of Dimes, say. 

        (SacsSacsSacsSacsSacs:
  Sphnix hulking over the city of Thebes)
  .
Do we encourage proper Anti-Rubric Rubrics  for
Imaginative Inquiry? For Expression?. For Action-
Required-to-Fashion power? (Whitehead). For Mess
& Guess, Slip-Sliding Away, Rooms for Play, Margery
fpr Error? Ike Indeterminacy? Inez Invention?  Izzy
Innovation? Carrol Creativity?  For Stalwart Pioneering
Beyond  Witherspoon?  Passing Hard & Soft Social
Science, & the Rational & Logically Positive
Humanitarians?

Toward frontiers north of Gazebo,
through  Clouds of Kittredge, &
Holden Wilderness.
Alien Nations, yes.

But, as you say and I agree:  complementary.
Fulfilling.

xxxooo, Sam