The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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Typewritten: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The progression of a crude, rudimentary form of a cave drawing to a type written email on a computer demonstrates the radical changes that have occurred in visual communication. Each style of transmission has its own advantages and drawbacks, but each was used in a different time in our culture. Conveying the results of a scientific experiment today would be almost impossible through a pictorial sketch, but when this form of intercourse was employed the messages had a different style and aim. Today though, we still use all of the forms to learn. A child begins with a picture book then moves up to one with short words and phrases that also has pictures. From there the words become longer and sentences more complicated. At last the child who has become a teenager is reading a novel and after typing up a summary on a computer. The stages of communication offer a gradual growth in comprehension. Without the first step though, the child would not be able to reach the more advanced forms. To learn is to make sense of something that was previously unknown. The way we learn is crucial but more importantly it’s that we get there.
