Friday 30 November 2012

Metaphors... the beauty & necessity....

Last month the TOK (Theory of Knowledge) department ran a day on "beauty" - where various teachers offered up their ideals and examples of beauty to the Grade 11 students.

I was inspired by one of my favorite poems - by Wallace Stevens - to offer up the beauty of the perfect metaphor -- made apparent by offering up some examples of bad metaphors.



Here are some books in our East campus library that explore the power of metaphors, similes, and analogies.


I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes
A Bee in a Cathedral: And 99 Other Scientific Analogies
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
Metaphors We Live By
Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
Using Analogies in Middle and Secondary Science Classrooms: The Far Guide- An Interesting Way to Teach with Analogies
Illness as Metaphor


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