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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