Wooden ABC blocks stacked and rearranged
Blankets and upended chairs
Forts and fences designed from a child’s mind
Leading grandma or grandpa into a fanciful foreign land
peopled with evil characters, action and stories with many roads
School days start
Education in earnest begins
With blocks on the calendar
Days and weeks designed from adult minds
To be filled, shaped and directed
School days with tests, quizzes and exams behind, ahead and around
creativity squeezed into skinny empty spaces beneath and between blocks of time.
“You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is,
like a farmer, create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.”
~ Ken Robinson
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