Power
of Imagery
... the
image is the great instrument of instruction. What a child gets out of any
subject presented
to him is simply the images which he himself forms with regard to it.
... if
nine-tenths of the energy at present directed towards making the child learn
certain things were
spent in seeing to it that the child was forming proper images, the work of instruction
would be indefinitely facilitated.
... much of
the time and attention now given to the preparation and presentation of lessons
might be more wisely and profitably expended in training the child's power of imagery and
in seeing to it that he was continually forming definite, vivid, and growing images of
the various subjects with which he comes in contact in his experience.
The
Philosophy of John Dewey (ed.John J.
McDermott)
