![]() ![]() It may just mean you played the game right. Getting an A in class may mean that you know how to take a test, to study well, and do the problems, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you learned anything. Learning is experimental, and there is no right way to do it. Accept the failure, brush the dirt off your shoulders, and get back up. Frizzle embodies the true experience of growth and learning. Some mistakes will lay you out on your back or give you a black eye. Frizzle isn’t saying to make a mistake, but to accept your mistakes. This is why I love taking risks, allowing slip-ups, and getting dirty. If I wasn’t scared of getting messy, ripping my clothes, scraping my knees, and all the little nicks and bumps I’ve collected along the way, physically and emotionally. If I had shielded myself from the idea of consequence. I certainly wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t take a chance. You won’t get the full experience if you’re afraid of getting a little mud on your Sunday best. You move on, trying to avoid the next snafu, but mistakes are unavoidable. You’ll grow from every mistake you make, whether it’s a minuscule detail or a life-changer. The same word can refer to wildly different levels of impact, but it all boils down to the same thing. They range from screwing up a problem set to ruining a relationship. But as a human being, these words are both terrifying and exhilarating.īlunders come in all sizes. As a scientist, these words make perfect sense to me. Frizzle tells her kids this: challenge convention, test your ideas, and don’t be afraid to fail. ![]() Frizzle encourages her students to throw themselves out there and explore, whether it be shrinking down to the size of an atom to look at chemical bonds or learning to play the trumpet. “The Magic School Bus” is the epitome of learning and growth. Frizzle’s area of expertise in “The Magic School Bus” series - evolves. In the real world, that’s exactly how the field of science - Ms. “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy.” – Ms. ![]() “As I always say, class, you’re out of this world.A queen taught me one of the most important lessons I have learned: And what you don’t see can be very hard to find.” Frizzle-isms “As I always say, for every trip, there’s a road map.” “If you keep asking questions, you’ll keep getting answers.” “As my old parachute instructor used to say, look before you leap, and never jump to conclusions.” “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!” ![]() Oftentimes what is isn’t, and what isn’t is.” The Friz on Life But this two million year old baby just hasn’t settled down yet. “As I always say, make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes! It’s the best way to learn something.” Soon, we’re getting treated to a Magic School Bus live action film. The beloved TV show ran for four seasons, and Netflix recently re-adapted the show in 2017. According to my research, Cole was a librarian before she started writing books full time in 1980, and she wrote the first Magic School Bus book in 1985, publishing 13 in total for the series with illustrator Bruce Degen. Joanna Cole, the author who wrote The Magic School Bus series, passed away last week, and she left behind a wonderful, adventurous legacy of learning in her wake. Moreover, I loved how she let the kids take risks and learn through experience. I loved Miss Frizzle’s cheerful, distinctive voice, her bursting enthusiasm for teaching, her adorkable and eccentric fashion sense, and her unorthodox methods of bringing her students directly to the thing they were studying…even if that meant getting swallowed by Arnold and going through his digestive system. I was the perfect age when the original Magic School Bus show aired, about 9–10 years old. She was the teacher to Carlos, Arnold, Tim, Keesha, Phoebe, Ralphie, Wanda, and Dorothy, sure, but she was everyone’s FST: favorite science teacher. Miss Frizzle was the first science teacher to take what I learned in school and make it memorable and fun. ![]()
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