Schoolchildren understand that page margins were made for doodling. It's almost sinful to let all the empty white space in a notebook go to waste. Scribbles, squiggles, googly-eyed faces, and hearts with arrows quickly grow and multiply, crowding into the writing space mid page. Give a child a notebook, a pencil, and sufficient time (say, the length of a history lesson), and that boundless imagination spills forth onto page after page. We're taught that doodling is a bad habit, and the notebooks we keep as adults are neater (if duller) for it. But wouldn't it be a little sad to see a student whose notebooks were filled with page after page after page of neatly printed notes and flanked by clean margins on both sides?
Imagine you are a child, doodling happily away. You have begun to draw a picture of a bear.
Which of the following looks most like your art?
A bear snoozing away contentedly
A bear with its arms raised in a frightened pose
A mother bear leading her cub
A cute bear, like a stuffed toy
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