I love GapingVoid. Always, it seems to me that Hugh writes his cartoons specifically for me. Here is what was in my mailbox this morning:
It was accompanied by this text…
My kids are one week into two week Passion Projects. We are doing this ‘extended Genius Hour’ as a precursor to Exhibition. It is fascinating for me as a watcher of tiny humans to see who does what, how inquiry looks to different children, who is flourishing, who is going under – or thinks they are.
Make a decent go of it.
I like that. Maybe you will be rubbish but you’ll never know unless you try and you can’t just try – you have to make a decent go of it.
Can’t ask for more than that.
I work in a high school with reluctant readers and by the time kids reach us, they have often lost that sense of wonder, but everyone now and then I see that spark and I love those moments.