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Writing Is a Visual Language
Occasional writings about Haskell.
The central thesis of that thread and the subsequent blog post is that copying other people’s artwork is a useful and reliable way to learn how to draw. If something is a talent, some inborn you-either-have-it-or-you-don’t quality of you as a person, then teaching or copying or what have you isn’t going to help very much, and in my view, Americans treat too many subjects like this: drawing, writing, math. But that constraint, limiting the amount of new stuff we expect children to do and learn at a given time, gives them the confidence-building freedom to master skills before moving on to increasingly more difficult and interesting tasks.
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