Literacy
Didactic: teaching morals, nationalism, etiquette, very pragmatic: don't drink from a hot tea kettle.
Humor: what is nature?
Metaphysical/Physical
speculative
-become less of a child
*"all children's lit. deals with our Adult nostalgia/idealized longing for home"*
Harriot Beacher Stowe
1.
- If we show them nature, they'll think about god. (influence from protestant reformation, and gutenberg; anyone can read.
- 1650: John Eliot; natives of masachusets to learn to read published in Elgonquin, two world views colliding."why do english men hate snakes?" Thought process: natives are like children
2.
- Enlightenment: dieism rather than theism
- Rational person can be good
- Charles Willson Peter; museum of artifacts like skeletons, creates cracks in world view. Learn but don't Question
- Darwins Origin, images conflict with text
- Iconoclasm: shattering of the image
- Facsimile: look like old one
- Noah Webster; blue back spell, regularizing spelling for an american language
- teaching children to think
"How do I know what I think untill I see what I say"
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