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Appendix D Statement by Alan Kay
Appendix D Statement by Alan Kay
Pages 42-44
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As McLuhan said, "We shape tools and then they reshape us." Earlier, Thoreau noted less approvingly: "We become the tools of our tools." A beautiful Amish saying is: "What you take into your hands, you take into your heart." Sometimes this is beneficial. Anthropologists gradually discovered that literate cultures have qualitatively different thought patterns than oral cultures, and could only ascribe the difference to mental changes brought by gaining the skills of reading and writing, which gradually lead to new forms of exposition and argument.
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Another learning sequence moves through "muscular learning" by direct contact with the world through "configurational learning" (including visual and auditory figurations) , and then to the more abstract world of symbolic representations.
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It would cost considerably less than a B2 bomber to pull off, and would have immeasurably more positive impact.
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