Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, recently visited India, where her activities included reading books to children at the SAI International School. Her visit was covered in the Telegraph newspaper.
“Imagination is a conscious activity that requires a great amount of focus and concentration. Storytelling can create a number of scenarios and possibilities. It can make the impossible possible. For example, our storybooks have animals talking, people talking, things vanishing and so on. But my aim was not to teach children to live in a fantasyland. I told them about humanitarian values, something that can help them become better individuals,” Spitz told the newspaper.
The story, “Of Math and Games,” appeared in the newspaper on January 13.
Spitz’s visit was also described in a release by the school, which said that “her wonderful presentation and storytelling was very impressive.” The full release can be read here.
