"A curriculum is structured like a pyramid, building from the ground up. You have to know A to learn B, you have to know A and B to learn C, you have to know A, B, and C to learn D, and so on." "Exactly. But I have no such curriculum. Rather than a pyramid, I'm constructing a mosaic. The pieces can be added in any order. In the early stages, there's nothing like an image, but as pieces are added, an image begins to emerge. As still more pieces are added, the image becomes more distinct, more definite, so that eventually you feel sure that the basic picture is before you. From this point on, the picture can only gain in sharpness and detail as pieces continue to be added. At last it seems that there are no >missing pieces' at all, and only the cracks between contiguous pieces remain to be filled, with ever tinier pieces. As the cracks between pieces are filled, the picture begins to look more and more like a painting--a continuous whole rather than an assembly of fragments--and in the end it no longer resembles a mosaic at all." The Story of B
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