Many ideas are floating through the air at any given time.   People catch them and remark on them, causing someone else to comment, an article or book is written, a movie or TV segment made.  There are ideas whose time has come, it is simply the right moment for these things to step into the world, raise a little sand.  Ideas both beautiful and horrific enjoy their moment on the world stage, in the minds of the most curious and the most incurious.

Ideas can flutter like dust motes, cough out like particulate ash, make kids’ tongues pop out for a taste, like snowflakes.  Free floating ideas can become projectiles and plunge down causing actual damage.  There are a number of these ideas out there now, they are always there.

Other floating ideas take wing, as they say, and you can see them soaring.  Like an idea Sugata Mitra had about the education of young people and the salubrious effect of an older person showing interest, and affection, and a sense of wonder about what the young person is learning.

A sense of wonder, there’s an idea we don’t appreciate every day.