Einstein, Monty Python and lateral thinking #twistedpair

The #twistedpair blogging challenge asks you to put together an unlikely pairing of characters - historical, contemporary or fictional - and write about a connection they have (however tenuous) and how it relates to learning. I hope that going through a process of thinking about connections between two seemingly unconnected characters will involve a lot of creative, lateral thinking, and that the end result will be a unique perspective on education from which we can all enjoy reading and learning.

Yesterday Sarah Honeychurch wrote a first blog post in response to the challenge and came up with Fools march in which is a brief but pithy reflection on professional practice and human impulsiveness using a tentative connection between Alexander Pope and the cartoon characters Roobarb and Custard (I love it!).

Andrew Smith swiftly followed up on my #twistedpair challenge with another strange pairing: How Monty Python and Albert Einstein inform my professional outlook just goes to prove my point that a lot of lateral thinking can be generated when we stretch our imagination a little. I created a whole bunch of other unlikely pairings in my initial blogpost. What kind of conversation might Tarzan have had with Jean Piaget? How might the love child of Marshall McLuhan and Madonna have turned out? Would Han Solo have been BFF with Queen Elizabeth I or would he have been beheaded? And what the heck has that to do with education?

Feel free to choose one of the unlikely pairs, or better still, make your own up, and join in with the fun and mayhem, as together we explore our professional practise through humour, imagery and creativity. I look forward to reading your #twistedpair blogs!

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Einstein, Monty Python and lateral thinking #twistedpair by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.