Tracing Lines: On the Educational Significance of Drawing

In 1865, the Brussels educational reformer Pierre Temples advocated to take drawing as cornerstone of education. He criticized that education was modelled on conventions and grammatical rules in order learn read write, this way ignoring potential create new concepts. This paper is also concerned with significance realm However, not elaborate its added value for education, but discuss mode thinking it seeks disclose. The starts a re-reading two stories: Pliny Elder's image origin Viktor Lowenfeld’s artistic developmental theory. brings us an understanding pure sensory experience, nor cognitive one, gesture marks visual visual, make object thought. Unlike Temples, contribution against grammar, understands act form grammatisation itself: i.e. particular response event, which simultaneously enables visualize what confronts us. Hence, ability imagine relationships world.