Modern instructive writing (as oppose to creative writing like novels, short stories, erotic fiction, etc.) all suffer from lack of pictures. I know that sounds

Modern instructive writing (as oppose to creative writing like novels, short stories, erotic fiction, etc.) all suffer from lack of pictures. I know that sounds incredibly childish, but bear with me on this one. Unlike our computer overlords, us lowly humans are ultimately visual creatures with brains that have been evolved through the millennia to be extremely optimized at processing and storing visual / spatial information. In fact, we're so much better with visual information compared with words or equations, that even our language reflects this: when we understand something, we exclaim something like "oh, now I see it". But, because of how hard it had been to serialize, transfer, persist, and unserialize drawings, we had no choice but to resort to shoddy words and equations to overcome the problem of communicating over large space-times. And so even now, in the era of image boards, instant messaging, etc., most of us still can communicate only with simple letters and numbers because we never learned how to communicate with colors, shapes, and lines when we went to school. This is especially true in certain regions of academia (and professional fields like law, accounting, math, gynecology, etc.), where picture books, diagrams, comics, and the like are viewed with patronizing disdain (though fields like Mech Eng. seems to do better as they focus a lot on 3D modeling, 2D diagramming, isometric views, etc.). In my opinion, the only way to improve academic writing so it's understandable, intuitive, and interesting is to improve how we write - with more pictures and less words. And the best way to do that, is to teach drawing like we teach English in our elementary, middle, and high schools