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FreshEd #303 – Playing With Blocks - The Square Root Of Tree (Michael Rumbelow)

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The Silent Way

Egyptian educator Caleb Gutenio developed a way of teaching language without speaking. He used wooden rods, one centimetre to ten centimetres long, painted in different colours. Like Froebel, he realised these blocks could be used for teaching all sorts of things. By naming the blocks at the start, almost like a kind of alchemy, the teacher could create a world full of relationships.

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