Dear Humans,

Yesterday we made origami boxes. And your first box might not have been very good. But your second box was a little better. And each box afterwards was a little better than the last.

No matter what job you’ll have when you get older (and you might have many) most of it will be doing the same thing over and over. And you’ll be good at your job if you are always getting better at doing that thing. You might do that thing with your hands or with words or by putting numbers in a computer. But the main job of any job is figuring out how to do it faster, better, and more efficiently.

So that’s really what we’re practicing at school. Everything we do–not just reading, writing, and arithmetic, but keeping our desks clean, having conversations with classmates, folding origami boxes–is about doing it better than we did it yesterday.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt