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The Bicycle Analogy

5/12/77


During a break from Logo Session 7, Miriam discovered that the hula hoop will stay upright if rolled. For the past several days, maybe the past two weeks, Miriam has attempted to ride her bicycle without training wheels. She received one hint, one good piece of advice from Jim, our neighbor: if you try to go fast on the bike, it will stay up. Miriam has succeeded through doing that.

When I asked her now why the hula hoop stays up instead of falling over, she said, “Well, because I make it go fast.” When I asked if there were anything else she knew like that, Miriam replied, “Yeah, sure. The bike.”