By Oskar Cymerman | @focus2achieve | BAM! Radio Network & Teaching Channel Blogger

Do this.
Do that.
Constant haste.
No time to waste.
 
This is serious!
No time for play.
No time to fail and try again.
Is there enough time to learn?
 
Little time to talk
To all those we should.
We’d all learn together.
We could do more good.
 
What’s the hurry?
Why the rush?
What if we changed,
Had all the time, rearranged?
 
There’s rhetoric
And beautiful words.
Visions of the future
Painted with broad brush strokes.
 
Dreams of beauty,
Beautiful dreams too.
They live in our mind-
Defined, refined, enshrined.
 
We keep dreaming…
Saying beautiful words…
Call ourselves believers,
Game-changers, leaders…
 
We call ourselves connected.
Another follower collected.
The truth of the present neglected.
Reality distorted, from it disconnected.
 
We put words on slides,
Send them into ether.
Aspire and inspire
Till our wills expire.
 
The emergence of divergence!
We shout out on the screen.
To all those who’ll look, but…
When it counts - will we intervene?
 
 
Challenge to All Educators:
1. Ask yourself and be honest with yourself - Do I do enough? Do I affect change or use beautiful words to talk about it?
2. Act Accordingly...
 
Thanks for reading! Check me out on BAm! Sign Up for my Newsletter - I blog about the science of learning, share teaching and learning strategies, write about finding inspiration in the little things, and always encourage others to ask questions, look for answers, and gulp (not sip) life. 
 
Remember: You have the power. Use it often.