Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but that headline in the last mumsnet emailout about children learning faster from photographs than line drawings just set me off. Does it really matter? What about quality of experience and enjoyment of the aesthetics of different types of image? What about creativity? Why does it matter if it might take my DD (still only 10 months, so I may just be being naive here...) slightly longer to recognise an object or animal from a picture because she's been looking at interesting artwork rather than a dull but 'factual' photograph?
Is that all childhood's about now? How fast we can pack as much 'learning' as possible into their heads? What happened to fun, and exploration, and discovery by accident, and play that doesn't have a bloody 'learning outcome'?
Grrrr. Rant over.
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Mij · 24/04/2007 21:42
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