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... "In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?" Abiola Oke Word count :1,228 In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?" First of all conventions are a common conformity on or approval of certain practices or attitudes. While accepted conventions are ideas, which are used to refine themselves in order to pave way for better ideas, to which at times straying from them is entirely necessary. Whenever Knowledge exists, a break in that knowledge is inevitable. There are two reasons we could experience breaks in conventions. The first is that the society is developing, so therefore peoples' intellect's change and the demand of the world changes with time so old conventions no longer suit society. The other reason is that
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