How to Teach a Child to Wash His Hands

People pass through these stages as their individual subjectivity is filled out. You can't very well teach a child anything through narrative or theory until it's learned language through mimesis, and until it's been sufficiently socialized by imitating the behavior of adults and older children. And from there, you don't move straight into philosophical ethics or abstract theology. If you want to teach them how to behave, you start giving them models of behavior through fairy tales and religious stories and so forth. The three modes represent develop mental levels of abstraction. First you learn how to act in the world. Then you learnHow to represent and model action through narrative. And then finally, you learn to