ABSTRACT
Educating in the fullest sense of the term means the shaping of both mental and sensori-motor capacities. Certain educators and psychologists maintain that school is only one kind of learning experience, a specialized situation which promotes the use of abstract symbol systems for verbal and mathematical analysis and communication. Other capacities related to the sensori-motor capacities, are utilized in a limited way in schools. This seems to be the case particularly in using non-verbal modes in developing intuitive knowledge of the world; that is, the ability to detect patterns through the various sensual modalities and to comprehend the totality of an experience and its relation to past experience. Arts and crafts and environmental education are among a range of experiences, which enhance a way of knowing the world other than the rational and the linear. Each of these areas is given some attention within the school programme, but it is of a minor nature and of a limited orientation.
