2006
After working in Jeannine's classroom on some science activities with a group of second graders, Jackson, aged 7, went back to his table, took out a sheet of paper and proceeded to draw. When he'd finished, he showed me what he had been doing. "Look, Mr. Paull, this is YOUR brain!"
I was taken aback. Jackson, it appears, thought of my brain as an IDEA MACHINE.
He said I was a scientist and when I think about something that catches my eye, I decide either to push it to one side, or to keep thinking about it. If I like the IDEA, though, Jackson said, it lights up a bulb in my head, and the IDEA gets bigger and bigger. As he talked, he pointed to the picture. "See? That's HOW it lights up!"
Jackson said that I probably think and think about it, and even share the IDEA with my friends, and continue to work and work on it. I won't leave it alone he said. When I have it, the BIG IDEA, that is, absolutely clear in my brain, Jackson said that I sit, scratch my head, and slowly write everything down that's in my head, draw a few pictures, and send the IDEA and illustrations to a publishing company............:)
BRILLIANT!!
For those who know/knew me, do you think Jackson got it right? :)
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