The Common Room: One Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures

re: "There are things pictures can do for us educationally, but there are more things pictures cannot do. We need words. The material that that follows largely comes comes from the book Education's Smoking Gun by Reginald G. Damerell...[snip]...He suggests, "Children brought up on television probably know less about things visual than their counterparts of pretelevision days. They know less because they are less literate. What is seen largely depends on what is known behind the eyes; and most of what we know comes from language."..."...