Once in an early elementary... «Learning All The Time»
nastaki18 апреля 2018Once in an early elementary classroom, I needed something in my desk, and asked a child if he would get it for me. He said OK and asked where it was. I said, "In the top right-hand drawer." There was a pause. Then he said. "Whose right hand, mine or the desk's?" For a second, I was baffled. What on earth could he mean? Then I saw and understood. When he looked at the desk it was as if he saw a living creature facing him. So I said. "Your right hand." Off he went, brought back what I had asked for, and that was that. Later it occurred to me that many young children must be animists, and see objects as if they were living creatures I wondered how many of them might have had that same question in their minds, without ever getting arond to asking it.
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