Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Texts: educational?

Texts are primarily educational in some shape or form. Most forms of text are used to describe, display, or implement certain information or ideas whether it be multiple subjects and thoughts, or to a single point. Billboards, commercials, and magazines, are more focused on educating consumers about specific products or ideas and to bring general awareness of them. They expose products, items, businesses, or even ideas on making good and bad choices as they provoke thought and opinion within the public specifically geared towards their topic or item of subject. They vary in their degree of being educational versus informational.Texts such as books, art, and music have a completely different educational quality to them. Paintings, lyrics, and textbooks can have very deep or superficial suggestions of meaning behind them. They are educational in the sense that there is something that can be pondered and learned as we ideate thoughts and feelings that arise as we perceive them with the most appropriate of our five senses. Perception and the depth of which we intake certain texts determine whether many texts are, or become educational.

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