[ Thanks to Osugi
Sakae for this link. ]
“Who would have thought anyone could not know how to use a paper
clip?“Some students I teach did not. Elementary school students,
eight, nine years old. They had never used paper clips before and
didn’t know how they worked. Some of them
attached the clip as in the picture.“Do you remember not knowing how to use a paper clip? I do not.
It just seems self-evident. What could be more intuitive? The
volume knob on a stereo? The stapler? Sandals? Anyhow, some of
these children did not know how to use the paper clip. For them the
paper clip was not intuitive. Maybe because it was not
familiar…”