Caine monroy biography of william shakespeare

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When you and I see cardboard boxes, we a) smash them under our feet so they can fit into the recycling bin or b) pack our books and bowls in them because we're moving. Two years ago, Caine Monroy, a 9-year-old boy from the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, let his imagination run wild. Instead of crushing boxes, he built a cardboard arcade out of them.

Although I've watched that video about Caine's Arcademany times, I still get choked up every.single.time. I suppose it's because although our society revolves around consuming and conforming, this is such a shining example of a child's capacity to imagine and create being nurtured and allowed to thrive. 

It's all too easy for those of us who are parents to come home after a long day at work and tell our children to stop effin' making a mess with the sticks and rocks they've dragged in the house, or the cardboard boxes, or the  ______(insert whatever crap you recently yelled at your kids about, and if you don't have kids, this is where you use your imagination, mmkay.)

Then when the kids go to school, the learning environment is not "build what you want" because that sort of thing can't be bubbled in on a multiple choice test. After that the kids go back home, turn on the TV, and watch Miley Cyrus makin