We are on the road today as this is the May long weekend in Canada.
I found this poem the other day and it spoke to me. I love being in the classroom. It is a creative place where I do not worry about pegs and holes. I grew to call my classroom the geometric paradigm where we learned to find the pegs that fit each of us any given day. This poem is a part of Apple‘s advertising.
Without those who do not fit in some way, who cause a certain amount of discomfort, and seek ways to change things up are we able to innovate and create. It is both uncomfortable for those who try to bring about change and to those change impacts. To make it work, we all have to be a little crazy together. Here’s to each of us who embrace a bit of craziness and weirdness.
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Teacher as Transformer 
just right.
Ivon, I have nominated you for the WordPress Family Award http://drbillwooten.com/2013/05/19/nomination-for-award-teacher-as-transformer/ for the fine work you have done with your blog. Thanks, Bill
Thank you and you are welcome Bill. This is appreciated.
Thank you for hitting the nail on the head at an opportune time for me 🙂
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You are welcome Sue.
Thank you for being one of the crazy ones, Ivon! I hope you have a great trip an that you stay crazy after all these years.
Russ
Thank you Russ. It has been a good trip with nice weather and it was nice to see the green of spring beginning to appear.
Oh, I so agree. It is the mist wonderful, inspiring, hopeful message. The world sure could use a lot more of those people right now.
Yes, it can.
Awesome- it’s all a matter of perspective- you see…:)
It is all in one’s perspective and attitude.
Genius is as common as the air we breathe. I constantly remind myself of this in my classroom. Thanks for sharing this Ivon!
I talk to my students about the concept of the extraordinary found in the ordinary. Quite often, what becomes routine is overlooked. Only when I take a moment and reflect do I realize that without that thing or person my life would be less. You are welcome and thank you for the wonderful comment.
I was on one of those courses once where we had to draw a symbol to represent ourselves. We didn’t have more than about 30 seconds to think about and complete this task. THEN we learned that we had to explain it to the group!
I’d drawn a hexagon on the basis that those who are addicted to sorting square pegs and round holes – or is it the other way round? – anyway, those peoiple who have to pigeonhole everything and everyone never know what to do with me.
And, education with its focus on numbers tries to do this. If we fail, we assign a slot.