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When the editors honored me by asking me to contribute a letter to this book, my first thought was to accept their invitation and my second thought was to communicate about a matter of urgent importance. I feel I shall have great difficulty conveying my thoughts and ask that you make my task easier by trying to get at my meaning. Remember, I do not offer theories but merely seek to clarify problems. My fear is that we are held captive by a vision of education. In what follows, I will say something about this vision and then put forward an alternative one that, I hope, will encourage you to see things differently.
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Laverty, M.J. (2013). Picture This. In: Kress, T.M., Lake, R. (eds) We Saved the Best for You. Imagination and Praxis, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-122-1_43
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