Watching my three year-old grandson playing with his quatro lego (four
times normal size - discontinued) I noticed how free he was of the
"rules of lego". That is, he tried impossible things. More
interestingly, he worked in ways that don't sit all that well with the
structure. For example, he changed his mind about the base frequently -
this lead to a few crashes and it led to him working upside-down. His
upside-down work reminded me of accounts of the process of Gaudi on
turning models for the Sagrada Família upside-down to see how gravity
worked. My grandson wasn't looking for gravity but he also wasn't
trapped into the presumed logic of the blocks.
Soon he will forget this freedom.
Keith Russell
OZ Newcastle
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