The world that we occupy is a world of sight, sound, taste, smell, and it is an interactive world. It is an image-filled world, and without access to that world or without the ability to experience the qualities that constitute the world in which we live, I think no education could go forward. Everyone in educational work is interested in the conceptual development of the young. We place concepts at the center of our activity. We would like youngsters to become conceptually sophisticated.
Images actualize the variety of the capacities of mind.
Our human cognitive ability is extraordinarily diverse. Images are at the core of education because the imaginative exploration of the image makes possible worlds possible. Imagination traffics in image construction. Our aim should be to persuade those who have not fully considered this matter to do so, and in so doing to help provide our children with a balanced educational program that does justice to the capacities of their minds, and that helps them access meanings that transcend the limits of the literal.