Imagine That!

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by Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein

Thinkering

By Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein on August 21, 2008 in Imagine That!

We argued in our previous blog that kinesthetic feelings and visual images precede symbolic expression of knowledge. Physicist Michael Faraday exemplifies this pattern perfectly and helps us to understand the results of Jeanne Bamberger's educational experiments in hands-on instruction with school children.

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Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein

Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein are co-authors of Sparks of Genius, The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).

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