"...by 6 to 7 months, babies can remember a sign. At eight months, children can begin to imitate gestures and sign single words. By 24 months, children can sign compound words and full sentences. They say sign language reduces frustration in young children by giving them a means to express themselves before they know how to talk." (Glarion, 2003)

Stanley donwood makes a woodcut

It's also ominous because all these colors that I've used are derived from the petrol-chemical industry. They're only possible because of the fractioning of hydrocarbons. That's how they get the pigments. None of it is natural. It essentially comes from black sludge. We've created this incredibly vibrant society, but we're going to have to deal with the consequences sooner or later.

I 0 ti people and things are objects to be used and expeiricne
man goes around hauling knowledge from the world they experience present man with only words of it

brainstorm-pick-plan-draft-review/assess-redraft ad infinitum
esl learner needs
a gifted 12 yr old made a mess of puck

a childs emoitions are far more improtant than his intellectual progress

autonomy..mastery..prupose

Stanley donwood
cy twom,bly
tadanori yokoo
david shrigley

Children , like adults learn what they want to learn
all prize giving and marks and..sidetrack rppoer personaility development
I know that under duiscsipline comparativley poor students pass exams but I wonder what becomes of these passers in later life..they become unimaginitve teachers, mediocre doctors and incompetant lawyers ..would possiblty be muxch happier as good mechanix or excellent bricklayers

if all schools were free and all lessons optional I bekleive that children wuold find their won level ..most of the school work that adolcesnents do is simply a waste of time and energy

We put out a differnet energy everyday
if all schools were free and all lessons optional
to escape moulding by adults who do nowt know how to live themselves