Do high ceilings help thinking?
November 3, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
High ceilings spur creative thinking, according to a recent study which did get me thinking about this: Charlie’s middle school classroom has a much lower ceiling than last year’s elementary school classroom last year, which was in a different building in a different part of our town. And, while his room last year had a row of windows that looked out to a playground and trees, this year’s room is on the far side of a corridor. There are windows, but they look out onto a hallway.
Lower ceilings and a lack of outside-looking windows aren’t the reason that Charlie’s transition to middle school has had its downs and ups and plateaus. But a little more light maybe, of a natural kind………
Wow. That gives a whole new meaning to flying buttresses.