My Story!
When I was reading about this assignment I thought," Oh no, I'm going to have to make something up" but I have never been one to fib a story for anything, especially school. I read the examples given in the description and started thinking back to all the science projects and things of that nature we did when we were younger and then I remembered third grade. Third grade was one of my favorites, I have no idea how I remember that but I do, and I had a younger teacher who was creative and encouraged us to explore any ideas or inventions that we had. In Elementary school, classes are paired into groups the whole year to encourage socialization and I remember a kid in my group who was very smart and always coming up with crazy "inventions." One day, he came in with a small Tupperware container full of what I would consider a glob of slime. He claimed that he had invented something that could remove, gasp, permanent marker and to a group full of third graders if it can remove something permanent it must be magic! Everyone told him no way that was possible and then our teacher, Ms. Gormley, encouraged him to give us a demonstration. She actually allowed this student to draw on his desk with permanent marker and then attempt to wipe it off with his slime. We all stared in amazement that she was letting him do this and then to our surprise, it worked! From that day on I have been interested in new inventions and ideas that the average person does not think will work. It is crazy how something so simple at a young age can spark interest in a way of thinking!
I loved your post! It took me back in time to my own third grade class, my teacher Mrs. Gilmore sounds pretty similar to your teacher. She use to do the coolest experiments with us from making our own pizza with a sun oven to growing mold in a ziplock bag.
ReplyDeleteI really appreciated your story. I haven't personally encountered enough teachers like yours (except Robin Williams in Dead Poet Society) that encourage students to push the boundaries of what they and others believe possible. More often than not, people are too concerned with repercussions and what others might think of them; Or they obsess over small damages that might occur versus the massive strides they may make in learning. I hope more people push others around them to pursue innovation instead of conformity, because if they didn't I wouldn't know how to remove permanent marker, and a lot of ridiculous ideas would never have the chance to be turned into great successes.
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