Why Children Draw

In his article in the May 2016 issue of Exchange, "Children Draw the World to Know the World," Jinan k.b., the force behind the Re-imagining Schools at a school near Pune, India, offered this observation:

"Drawing is the playing that children do on two-dimensional space, which is where modern humans are located most of the time.  In the three-dimensional space, that is in the real world where children play, again, provided they have their way.  But when they are forced into the two-dimensional world of the book, they draw.  Drawing comes naturally to children, unlike writing.  They draw on the wall, paper, floor, even on water, and on any such space where children can get their hold.  They draw with whatever they can get hold of.  Apart from pen and pencil, their own fingers come to help while drawing on the plate, misty windows, and so on.  Through the process of drawing, children are able to understand how the world looks — the form, what happens around them, both in the natural world and the social world.  The reason, rules, what, and how children draw are dictated by biology or nature or life, provided we don’t interfere.  The same is the case with play."

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