Learning Through Literature: Books To Tickle Their Brains
We live in a visually concrete world. Objects are visible for the most part. There are things in our world that we only feel like the wind. There are things that we only know through knowledge and science like the distance of the sun and the moon. These things in our world are taken for granted by all living things on earth. To tickle the brain of a human one needs only to reach out into the world of fantasy and watch that person’s brain grow in possibility thinking.
One of the first books that is read to children in many cultures is a book on fables like Aesop’s Fables. The origin of Aesop, a black slave living in Greece, is obscure. But his stories are full of lessons and possibility training. There are other people like Aesop that make for books that tickle the brain by making it leap from the concrete world of reality to the abstract world of thought development. Another book would be the Bible and the parables of Jesus that were also like Aesop’s Fables part of abstract thinking that tickles the human mind.
Another book that tickles brains is “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea” written before submarines were invented. Such are the books that tickle the human mind.