LEGOLEGO is More than a Child's Play which is making the next great leap in education. 

You might think that Lego is a children's toy. We used to play when we were a kid, and now step on as you walk through the house as a parent. But today, bricks are emerging in all sorts of unexpected places, including museums, street art, home remodeling, and workplaces. People who play with Lego, such as artists like Ai Weiwei, businessmen who promote work functions, and engineers who design sophisticated robotics, are also unexpected. A recent book, Lego and Philosophy, offers a new perspective. These brightly colored bricks and LEGO are More than a Child's Play. They raise important and challenging questions about creativity and play, fitness and autonomy, identity and culture.

Not just for kids

Recent interest in Lego goes beyond and makes LEGO More than a Child's Play. Sociologists, psychologists, and economists have studied the use of Lego blocks as a tool to achieve specific goals through LEGO robot programming and similar activities. Tools are for use, construction, work, thinking, education, imagination, play, and more. The tool can be used for anything. If you realize that LEGO is More than a Child's Play, it's not just about playing, it's about its use. It's a universal tool that we can use to create what we can imagine. LEGO Group companies are familiar with the role of bricks as a universal tool of imagination. One of their most successful advertising campaigns had a minimal slogan, "Imagination."

Structured thought, brick by brick

Here, we need to be more thoughtful, critical, and perhaps suspicious about the largest toy makers selling the most important tools to children's minds. Do we want a for-profit company that focuses on commercial and economic interests, manages children's thoughts, and guides how they imagine? Lego's slogan "Imagine" means that your imagination is the only limit to what you can build. Of course, that's not entirely true. In one of the chapters in the book, we'll explore how LEGO is More than a Child's Play, Lego comes with some built-in restrictions and how those restrictions can help stimulate the discerning Lego builder. 

Some of these restrictions are unique to the nature of the stone. With each set, we can literally and metaphysically build our world of creation. In another chapter, we will explore the similarities between the Lego world and our world and build the metaphysics of bricks. The instructions set another set of restrictions on the creation of Lego, at least assuming you are the kind of player who follows the rules. And here we reach the LEGO user rift between those who voluntarily follow the rules and those who favor free play and drop them altogether. The LEGO Movie satirizes these two types of LEGO users with over-the-top characters.

Is Lego constructing your world?

With metaphysics and rules, Lego sets fundamentally shape the world we live in. Lego can do this well, but it's not always the case. LEGO's recent increase in gender-biased marketing highlights the problems that shape what we think and how. Assuming that when LEGO creates materials for children, girls are more interested in characters, stories, and emotions, and boys are more interested in buildings, cars, and explosions, what should both be for children? A world where children are shaped to become the dominant cultural story to tell and meet those expectations.

This explains why many people opposed pink and purple Lego Friends in 2012. LEGO Friends was intended to appeal to the girl's feminine desire to take care of animals and play at home. The problem with Friends is that in this Lego world and the general world, it seems to be presented as the only option for girls. The fact that LEGO Friends characters aren't designed to attach to regular blocks creates a literal gender difference during playtime. Of course, there is good news. Shortly after the launch of LEGO Friends, there was a license to produce an all-female laboratory set. But it soon retired and still believes in the concept of gender in girls' games. Other than creating gadgets and figures, there are no technical or scientific skills built into playing with the set.

Breaking down racial stereotypes

However, Lego is more successful on racial and ethnic themes. While his originally all-yellow Minifigures appear to ideally embody well-meaning racial neutrality, Lego's racial representation changes social assumptions about race. I'm tracking. Bricks and numbers are tools that show our way of thinking and encourage us to change our way of thinking about race.

This is an opportunity for Lego. If it's a tool for building something, it's also a tool for building a new paradigm for thinking about race, gender, and social justice. Lego challenges the status quo, encourages critical thinking and deep remorse about the world, and understands and rethinks how children and adults live on this planet. Has the power to help. It will turn a popular building block into a truly innovative and creative tool for the future.