A Fable for ALL TIMES .... The Magic tree,,,,

Let's Celebrate a fable 
I love it because I just brought all together and now I see the bigger picture...
I have told the students to think for themselves...They have rebelled.... Some even went home and complained to their parents...The parents confronted me..."You do not teach properly, that's why my son got a low mark..." Some went to the principal....complained about my accent...and instead of the principal dismissing them with an appropriate lesson on tolerance and diversity, he leaned on me and transferred the student to another section...So went to their vice-principals and the VPs told me that I am lazy...I told the VPs that I arrive to school earlier than all the teachers and definitely earlier than the VPs...I arrived at school between 6:30 - 7:00 and left the school between 4:00 - 5:00 on most days...But since I was fed up of peevish students and  quixotic VPs, I did not argue with them and let it be...They even dared to demonstrate to me how to teach ... and show-off educational methods...
But now enough of them...Let's celebrate the fable...

You may stop here and say...It's what the Bible says...After all, indeed that's what happens under the apple tree...So take things at their face value and go to your everyday chatter and accusations and gossip...

Or 
You may stop and think...Believe it or not THINKING IS FREE...That is what I wanted the students to do...Some of them appreciated it...Most of them were angry and frustrated...So invented legends like "his accent," "his looks...""his way of explaining..." or "not explaining things..." or simply "He is very hard and demanding..." and run to their parents in order to hide under their skirt or in their pants....
In schools it is the accepted premise..."students-parents are always correct..." and "blame the teacher..." and "never accept responsibility..." and Ps and VPs will protect you...

When you think...When you "try and err"...You will arrive at your "eureka" moment and learn from your errors and be a scientist like Newton and the rest...
I always wanted the students to learn through experimentation and "trial and error"...                     I asked them over and over again..."what famous scientists do...?" 
I answered my question too...
"The famous scientist wakes up in the morning...washes her face...dresses up...heads to the lab...and plays with mice...and experiments...and experiments again..." At the end of the day he returns home stretches his legs and says..."Oh...I am so tired..."
But what he achieved...? He worked on a cure for AIDS or cancer or...and She will do the same again tomorrow and the day after and the day after that...for years to come...till he or she arrives at the "eureka" moments for AIDS or cancer...
If they give up after 5 minutes...then what will happen...?  
NOTHING...ZERO....VACUUM
I emphasized: "When you are a student....You 'try and err', but when you are the famous scientist...they say you 'experimented all day...' even they reward you for your research....
I had it on my classroom wall in big letters: TRIAL and ERROR = RESEARCH....But teachers have disagreed with it and Ps and VPs have told me to write few verses from the Bible instead of ?nonsense" and of course most students have complained to their mom and dad and Ps and VPs and the gossip has evolved till ALL believed the myth...
Blessed are the blind minded people...Because they will inherit the wars and the hunger and the misery of the Global Village...

Enjoy The Beauty and Spread the Magic....

In spring, the trees blossom in shades of pink, crimson and white, and in summer, they bear a range of stone fruit.

Incredible 'magical' trees that bear 40 different varieties of fruit have been popping up all over US, the Daily Mail reports.
These trees - which can simultaneously produce different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries - look ordinary throughout most of the year. But in spring, they bloom into a stunning patchwork of colors, with each tree featuring its own unique selection of stone fruit.

They are the work of Syracuse University sculptor and artist Sam Van Aken who created the trees in an attempt to make people reconsider how food can be produced. The project began in 2008 when Mr Van Aken discovered that a New York state orchard, which held varieties of stone fruit 200-years-old, was to be abandoned.
In hopes of saving it, the artist bought the orchard, and soon after started experimenting with something known as 'chip grafting.' The process involves taking a sliver off a tree, including the bud, and
inserting that into a cut in the working tree. The foreign tree part is then taped and left to heal over the winter. Mr
Van Aken explained that most stone-fruits are easily compatible. What he came up with is 'The Tree of 40 Fruit', which is in fact, not one tree, but a series of hybridised fruit plants. 'So rather than having one variety that produces more than you know what to do with, it provides good amounts of each of the 40 varieties.

I love the colours...I love the Play-Doh...a simple and very easy way to experiment and to create...What a wonderful thing that an ingenious and observant and visionary teacher brought to her students...

A very simple thing to just observe...The wall paper cleaner...Safe and non-toxic...Like newton's apple tree...

                                                                                   The original Play-Doh....The original idea...

The Play-Doh is a good thing to play with...it is a good trial and error method...to create and give wings to your imagination...

Here is what happens when you imagine and think and think again...

A BillBoard That acts like 1,200 trees...

Can a billboard save the Earth?

Peru’s University of Technology and Engineering (UTEC) has transformed the advertising behemoths into sources of clean air and water for the local community. 

Students and staff from UTEC have partnered with a local advertising company, FCB Mayo, to create an air-purifying billboard using existing technology cleverly placed inside the highway sign. The billboard sucks air into a water tank, which balances internal heat and traps particles, allowing clean air to flow out the other side. Best of all, the billboard can be placed near construction zones to alleviate pollution.

• I wish leaders notice this...

• I wish this will transform the billboards on the highways and the byways...and the ads on our streets...

...And Why you should care?

Because advertising is already an integral part of our cities. We might as well make it work for us.

Peru’s University of Technology and Engineering (UTEC) believes that engineers can change the world. As proof, it has transformed billboards — fixtures so commonplace that most of us barely notice them — into sources of clean air and water for the local community.

The newest billboard cleans roughly

70,000 cubic meters

of air per day, equivalent to

1,200 trees.

These efforts are welcome in the capital, Lima, a city that’s both on the rise and on the edge. Located in a coastal desert, Lima struggles with 98-percent humidity but receives just a third of an inch of precipitation each year, causing extreme water shortages. Some 1.2 million poor Limeños are forced to buy punitively expensive water from private, unregulated trucks, and they’re paying about 20 times what wealthier residents with better infrastructure pay for running water.

Also
A MOSQUITO-REPELLENT NEWSPAPER IN SRI LANKA

A core objective of journalism is to spread information for the benefit of society — a goal that is increasingly carried out online these days. But sometimes an old-fashioned print newspaper is still the most powerful engine for public good — in highly unexpected ways. Earlier this year, advertising powerhouse LEO BURNETT in Sri Lanka partnered with the Sinhala-language newspaper MAWBIMA in a campaign to fight deadly dengue fever. Together they created what could be the world’s first  MOSQUITO-REPELLENT NEWSPAPER...
May be...
Next time you complain when the ink from your Sunday paper gets on your fingers, imagine the potential of that ink to save lives — and perhaps you’ll be less bugged. 
And even,
May be start to THINK and TRY and ERR and...may be arrive at your EUREKA moment and besides enjoying the apple the old fashioned way...YOU WILL THINK OF NEW WAYS...to enjoy...May be mix with salad...may be use to demonstrate the evil power of a bullet that kills...

Be careful...aim it right...aim at the apple...Do not kill people...

...And then think ...[ WE AGREED THAT IT IS FREE...] 
   An apple a day...will keep the doctor away...and you will THINK MORE....