 |
| La maîtresse laisse les enfants tripatouiller la pâte à modeler de manière à ce qu'ils découvrent les formes et les couleurs. // The teacher lets the kids knead the modeling clay so that they discover shapes and colors. |
Do you remember your surprise at the physics lessons when they told you that all colors combined give white - and even demonstrated it with a rotating wheel of all colors? *
Our teacher didn't go into all that additive/subtractive business, so the lesson left me somewhat puzzled.
For I knew perfectly well that when you mix all the paints together you get mud.
And if we are talking modelling clay (or plasticine), the shapes you will probably get will be sort of partial exoskeletons for everybody involved.
---
* - I know it is not necessarily universal, but I discovered to my delight that Timur got exactly the same demonstration as me - in a different country and one generation later.
No comments:
Post a Comment