Every Act Is A Visual Judgement.

From Building A Fire One Can Learn Something About Artistic Composition. If You Use Only Small Kindling And Large Logs, The Fire Will Quickly Eat Up The Small Pieces But Will Not Become Strong Enough To Attack The Large Ones. You Must Supply A Scale Of Sizes From The Smallest To The Largest. The Human Eye Also Will Not Make Its Way Into A Painting Or Building Unless A Continuum Of Shapes Leads From The Small To The Large, From The Large To The Small.

Once It Is Recognized That Productive Thinking In Any Area Of Cognition Is Perceptual Thinking, The Central Function Of Art In General Education Will Become Evident.

The Experienced Physician, Mechanic, Or Physiologist Looking At A Wound, An Engine, A Microscopic Preparation, "sees" Things The Novice Does Not See. If Both, Experts And Laymen, Were Asked To Make Exact Copies Of What They See, Their Drawings Would Be Quite Different.

A System Is In Equilibrium When The Forces Constituting It Are Arranged In Such A Way As To Compensate Each Other, Like The Two Weights Pulling At The Arms Of A Pair Of Scales.

Rather Than Be Asked To Abandon One's Own Heritage And To Adapt To The Mores Of The New Country, One Was Expected To Possess A Treasure Of Foreign Skills And Customs That Would Enrich The Resources Of American Living.