Well how can you stand to be in here my friend, scratching answers to math with your pencil or pen?When outside the door there are bees on the lawn, and birds have been singing since just before dawn.Well how can you stand to do history and spelling, while a world full of lilacs your nose could be smelling?With lilly pads, cattails and water bugs speeding on blue sky reflections, while you sit here reading..
The cotton hung high, glows from natures appliance, while you study clouds from a book labeled science.
With the wind bending weeds in the field down the road, and the neighbors pet cat pouncing after a toad, While a squirrel in a tree looking down on it all, drops nuts in the dew where the peach blossoms fall, When a butterfly flutters by, acting aloof, How can you stay in for walls, ’nieth a roof?
Notice that the outside is a blank sheet… he can dream anything he wants to dream… no restraints… no rules… just endless possibilities. Good on you Wiley!
And you can be sure that if you’re feelin’ rightA daydream will last along into the nightTomorrow at breakfast you may pick up your earsOr you may be daydreamin for a thousand years-Lovin Spoonful
I don’t think anyone else has said this, so I will: this composition is masterful. One panel, grading from darkness into light, and the kid staring out the window leading the viewer with him out into the unbounded light. High art, Wiley. Thanks.
ADD and ADHD are very real problems that existed long before the pharma corps came up with meds. It just took a while to realize these were real neurochemical issues and not laziness. I should know; I have ADHD. All the discipline and positive reinforcement in the world didn’t work because it’s as physical in nature as a broken bone. It’s just extremely hard to tell if it’s an actual physical malady or not.
I agree with HighPriestMikhal. The trouble with such afflictions is the person who has them doesn’t know he has the problem. When you try your hardest to focus and pay attention, and you realize that no matter how hard you try, you can’t do it. The only possible explanation, when you know you are trying your best, is that you ARE stupid! What other explanation could their be? I thought I was a moron, and I’m just Lysdexic………
In good school districts, there are very few students who flunk any more, and it’s not because the curriculum is any easier, or the grades inflated. It used to be the ADD and ADHD students who flunked…Now they are diagnosed and taught differently. They are doing their best to do it without drugs…but if that’s what it takes.
On a slightly different note, National Geographic had an article about genetic traits, throughout the world. Compared to people in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, people in Southern S. America are 50% ADD. Implications? The ancestors of the first folks to wander out of Africa, and kept going to settle the Americas had ADD. In other words, they kept saying "Ooo…there’s something pretty and shiny way over there, let’s go see what it is….Oh, look over there…Oh, and over there……until they ran out of room….Something to think about…There’s a time and a place for everything I guess.
hariseldon59 over 12 years ago
Ralph Phillips
cleokaya over 12 years ago
Very nice. Dream big dreams.
dkendraf over 12 years ago
Ohhh, this takes me back a few years!
i_am_the_jam over 12 years ago
Too late…
KenTheCoffinDweller over 12 years ago
Well it is not MY fault that you want us to learn about William Cody and Kit Carson and I left to go do close observation of their lives.
rayannina over 12 years ago
Bill Gates: The Early Years.
Aussie Down Under over 12 years ago
A young Walter Mitty???
revisages over 12 years ago
but i will day dream in style
Kvasir42 Premium Member over 12 years ago
Reminds me of notes I took once in college. First they went to gobbledygook, and then trailed off completely.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Well how can you stand to be in here my friend, scratching answers to math with your pencil or pen?When outside the door there are bees on the lawn, and birds have been singing since just before dawn.Well how can you stand to do history and spelling, while a world full of lilacs your nose could be smelling?With lilly pads, cattails and water bugs speeding on blue sky reflections, while you sit here reading..
The cotton hung high, glows from natures appliance, while you study clouds from a book labeled science.With the wind bending weeds in the field down the road, and the neighbors pet cat pouncing after a toad, While a squirrel in a tree looking down on it all, drops nuts in the dew where the peach blossoms fall, When a butterfly flutters by, acting aloof, How can you stay in for walls, ’nieth a roof?
Jim Picard
psychlady over 12 years ago
Why Not???
Varnes over 12 years ago
Ausie, no I think this one is autobiographical….If that ain’t a young Wiley Miller at the window, I’ll eat my cat..er, hat…
tigre1 over 12 years ago
Young Einstein…
SoItBegins~ over 12 years ago
Cute.
-Saint- over 12 years ago
Technically speaking, it looks like class is out of session, so he’s ok for the (daydreaming) moment…!
wicky over 12 years ago
That was me.
hildigunnurr Premium Member over 12 years ago
I used to draw what I could see out the windows. Had this whole notebook called Drawing in class…
EDinWAState over 12 years ago
Notice that the outside is a blank sheet… he can dream anything he wants to dream… no restraints… no rules… just endless possibilities. Good on you Wiley!
Kaputnik over 12 years ago
I don’t always like this strip, but every now and then he comes up with a really good one, like this.
puddleglum1066 over 12 years ago
Get back to your standardized test and stop daydreaming about art, music and literature! You don’t want to be Left Behind, do you?
tagteam over 12 years ago
Mine was “I am not the class clown” 500 times. Then I had to erase the blackboard and go outside to bang the erasers. My nickname was “dusty”
thirdguy over 12 years ago
For an adhd kid, the classroom often seemed like prison.
wjstuhr over 12 years ago
A self-portrait, Wiley?
Linguist over 12 years ago
“…And the the whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shining morning face,creeping like a snail unwillingly to school…”
Shakespeare: As You Like It
Mostly Water Premium Member over 12 years ago
And you can be sure that if you’re feelin’ rightA daydream will last along into the nightTomorrow at breakfast you may pick up your earsOr you may be daydreamin for a thousand years-Lovin Spoonful
bopard over 12 years ago
Nothing beats the efficiency of teaching by rote, or the inefficiency of learning by rote
dfowensby over 12 years ago
don’t guess wiley ever had to do this himself. it’s quicker if you just write it on the board one word of the sentence at a time in vertical columns.
Redhead55 over 12 years ago
Ahhh, nostalgia.
bmonk over 12 years ago
“Bart”
+++++
I’d think it’s more like Calvin. Escaping into the Fifth Dimension, where time has no meaning!
Vonne Anton over 12 years ago
Schools tell you what they think is real…day dreaming tells you what you know in your heart to be real.
MysteryCat over 12 years ago
Hang in there, school will be out for the summer, soon. :)
PShaw0423 over 12 years ago
I don’t think anyone else has said this, so I will: this composition is masterful. One panel, grading from darkness into light, and the kid staring out the window leading the viewer with him out into the unbounded light. High art, Wiley. Thanks.
halavana over 12 years ago
To anyone who ever read a Ray Bradbury story…
JimmyBalloons over 12 years ago
Think Different
Ernest Lemmingway over 12 years ago
ADD and ADHD are very real problems that existed long before the pharma corps came up with meds. It just took a while to realize these were real neurochemical issues and not laziness. I should know; I have ADHD. All the discipline and positive reinforcement in the world didn’t work because it’s as physical in nature as a broken bone. It’s just extremely hard to tell if it’s an actual physical malady or not.
dabugger over 12 years ago
perfect!
Dr_Fogg over 12 years ago
Those were the days my friend… Now most schools are hermetically sealed.
bergamot over 12 years ago
This was my school experience.
rgcviper over 12 years ago
“What a day for a daydream …”
jefferymoulton over 12 years ago
That’s like most of my days. Brilliant, Wiley. Just brilliant.
Varnes over 12 years ago
I agree with HighPriestMikhal. The trouble with such afflictions is the person who has them doesn’t know he has the problem. When you try your hardest to focus and pay attention, and you realize that no matter how hard you try, you can’t do it. The only possible explanation, when you know you are trying your best, is that you ARE stupid! What other explanation could their be? I thought I was a moron, and I’m just Lysdexic………
In good school districts, there are very few students who flunk any more, and it’s not because the curriculum is any easier, or the grades inflated. It used to be the ADD and ADHD students who flunked…Now they are diagnosed and taught differently. They are doing their best to do it without drugs…but if that’s what it takes.
Varnes over 12 years ago
On a slightly different note, National Geographic had an article about genetic traits, throughout the world. Compared to people in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, people in Southern S. America are 50% ADD. Implications? The ancestors of the first folks to wander out of Africa, and kept going to settle the Americas had ADD. In other words, they kept saying "Ooo…there’s something pretty and shiny way over there, let’s go see what it is….Oh, look over there…Oh, and over there……until they ran out of room….Something to think about…There’s a time and a place for everything I guess.
trulybrown over 12 years ago
Hey, that’s me!
Whitecamry over 12 years ago
Hey, teach, it’s not my fault you’re a droning bore!