One thing that often strikes me is that I have almost completely lost the ability to interpret black & white diagrams
But these were a standard tool of my education, in virtually every subject from history to physics
Colour was not really a tool of education outside the artroom, or maps of physical geography
Television (if you had it at home) was black & white, technicolour the exception rather than the rule for films, or so it seemed
Robert Hughes tells how, in far away Australia, his only knowledge of much of the great art he studied came from black & white, often very small, photographs
How on earth did we manage?
And how does the colour explosion affect how children learn today?
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