In Western culture, the classical ways of teaching and learning always comprised reading, memorising and writing...
Usually, when I'm reading an article I put down the things I could need later. And usually I'm reading in some goddamn unnatural position, lying on the floor. Yesterday, going through an obscure text on innate immunity, I spent quite a lot of time, trying to find a comfortable position... And I ended sitting at my long-forgotten & unused table. That's when an interesting (interesting for me, at least) idea came to me:
How the learning & cognitive processes depend on the instruments one's using. Namely, one's pen. Come to think about it, the modern ball, gel ecetera pens allow a person to write wherever he wants to; they make scrabbles easier to read; they make the writing process faster. They devaluate it, don't they?
While writing with ink, using pens in the old meaning of word - the ones that are done from feathers, one have to be careful: not too fast, not scrabbling - hey, ink is a very capricious thing... Surely, it's more difficult and it takes more time. But it should give a kind of discipline that I suppose nowdays is forgotten...
How the difference between pens & pens influence the learning process? And it's results..?
Ideas & discussion will be appreciated. Honestly =)