Obviously born a geek

We’ve been visiting the welikeplay grandparents, and I got around - as part of this great odyssey into play - to asking what my own play was like as a child.  Apparently, and quite unsurprisingly, I was born a geeky with a slightly obsessive penchant for lego.

I find it interesting how this toy shaped my later thinking.  As a teacher I was passionate about de-constructing philosophical ideas and religious practices down to the most basic 2×3 blocks.  Then passing these ideas over to the pupils who would then build them up again to dizzying heights, with a greater understanding for having been the one to have put it together.  As a web designer, I’ve been partial to content systems which you can bolt bits onto.  And blogging is so much like tower building that some great lego-ists like Geek-dad have turned to their blog.

I wonder how tiara wearing lad and the ramp of doom child will think once they’re all growed-up?

tag... play, philosophising