provided each student in the school with a photograph of 
himself. The classrooms of the school were abundantly supplied 
with large mirrors. The result was an astounding increase in the 
learning rate. The slum child has ordinarily very little visual 
orientation. He does not see himself as becoming something. 
He does not envisage distant goals and objectives. He is deeply 
involved in his own world from day to day, and can establish no 
beachhead in the highly specialized sense life of visual man. The 
plight of the slum child, via the TV image, is increasingly 
extended to the entire population.

     Clothing and housing, as extensions of skin and heat-
control mechanisms, are media of communication, first of all, in 
the sense that they shape and rearrange the patterns of 
human association and community. Varied techniques of 
lighting and heating would seem only to give new flexibility and