Dear Abstract Thinkers,

In school you learn to make sense with symbols–letters, numbers. Throughout school, we get more and more abstract with those symbols.

In kindergarten you draw pictures of penguins. Then you’ll write and read about penguins. And later you’ll learn  what makes a penguin a penguin. In Kindergarten you count objects. Later you’ll use numbers much bigger than you can ever count. And later you’ll learn about numbers’ attributes.

When we turn the world into symbols, it’s much easier to understand it and share knowledge. But it also reveals another world–a world of knowledge–that is much different than our normal everyday reality.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck