Pete Smith’s Cartoons of Genius – Reduction of nature through education.

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This was another sketch commenting on our education system. Instead of a celebration of life, nature and the universe, it was a study of dead specimens. They were reduced to anatomical parts that required naming. Instead of the understanding of how they worked revealing a greater, more wonderful revelation, it merely reduced it down to something less than what it was. The sum of the parts was less than the whole. It was a chore to be learnt rather than a joy to be appreciated.

Biology should be a celebration – not a misery. It’s a wonder!

This was a simple drawing of what had been a much more intricate pencil drawing. I shall have to hunt those drawings out!