Visual symbols like cartoons can effectively tell stories and convey meaning without words by using metaphor and symbolism. Such symbols summarize experiences and allow a little to represent a lot. Graphs and images can communicate vast amounts of information through abstraction in a way that is worth many words.

1. Teaching with
Visual Symbols

2. Cartoons

3. Cartoons
tells a story metaphorically
a perfect cartoon needs no
caption.
The lesser the artist
depends on words, the more
effective the symbolism.

6. “Visual Symbols will be
made meaningful if we
can use them as
summaries of our own
direct experiences or our
own rich indirect
experiences… A little can
stand for a lot!”

7. Abstraction
“…graphs and
images are worth
a thousand words…”