On our way to the library, Izze and I had a fire engine pass us with its siren on. I noted how I never really just tried to understand the doppler shift before I learned about it in physics class. I bemoaned the fact that I wasn't really intellectually curious enough, that I wasn't intellectually engaged in daily life as a matter of course. No wonder I teach science rather than do science - I just don't have the right stuff!
Izze responded, "Well, that's a surprising thing to hear you say because you are one of the most intellectually engaged people I know."
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Years ago, we had an interim principal for a year (JR) and I remarked to him that, as a school, we seemed to always be beating ourselves up. "We could this better" or "why do we do it that way" or "why can't we be more like that school over there that does it differently?" He responded immediately with "that's what great organization do, they are always looking for improvement. They aren't sitting around congratulating themselves - that's the way to slide backwards." I thought that was a wise insight.*
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So, maybe it's a good thing that I am frequently disappointed in my own intellect. Why didn't I see that coming? Why didn't I take the time to figure that out? How could I forget that? Hopefully some progress was made through the years.
Thanks, Izze.
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| AI art from the prompt "doppler shifted thinking" |
*He also dropped wisdom on me in response to my saying that eighteen year old Ken would be disappointed in 45 year old Ken teaching high school: "What could you do that is more important than this?"
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