Parable of the Crayon Box
An elementary school art teacher provided her students with a large sheet of art paper and several brand-new boxes of sharp, unpeeled crayons in a multitude of colors. She instructed the students to share the crayons and to work together to create a colorful mural to hang in the hallway outside the classroom. She thought other students might be inspired to take art if they saw demonstrations of her class’s work.