Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood — The Projection of Hands (1907)
“ MOVEMENT, play, art, are all a kind of preparation. They are all, but especially the last two, imitative in character, reflecting impressions received—and they are a preparation; but for what? For something that out-distances them all and is entirely different from every one of them. ”
Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood — The Projection of Hands (1907)
“ No child arm could project such an axe. But could there be a more useful exercise devised for children than the study (playful or otherwise) of this arm? To get, unconsciously, a right notion of its proportions is surely a good preparation for the unconscious projection of a tool that will fit it—and this is the kind of exercise that children will choose if left to themselves, and will persist in for a long time. ”
Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood — The Projection of Hands (1907)
“ A tool differs entirely from a picture, or statue, or any work of art, because it can be used as a member. It is used at first as a member, and, indeed, the earliest tool makers were not conscious of it as anything outside their own bodies. ”
