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“Who is Dr. Seuss?” If you were to ask this of a younger student, you will most likely receive an answer about the Cat in the Hat or Green Eggs and Ham.
Dr. Seuss was born Theodor (Ted) Suess Geisel in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Ted Geisel was your typical teenager. He had a passion for writing cartoons. During World War I, at the age of 14, Ted sold war bonds and was 1 of 10 scouts recognized by President Teddy Roosevelt as one of Springfield’s top sellers. What you may not know is that during this recognition ceremony President Roosevelt was only given 9 medals to present to the young boys. Ted Geisel was number 10 and when President Roosevelt reached Ted, he gruffly bellowed, “What’s this little boy doing here?” Honor quickly became humiliation as the flustered scoutmaster shuffled Ted off stage. This event had a lifelong impact on our beloved Dr. Suess, who from that day on dreaded public appearances.
The day Dr. Suess received his 27th rejection from a publisher he headed home with plans to burn his manuscript in the apartment’s incinerator. As luck would have it, he ran into an old college friend, Mike McClintock, who that very morning had started a new job as an editor in the children’s section at Vanguard Press. Within hours, a contract was signed.
In 1937 Dr. Seuss’s extraordinary career was launched when Vanguard Press published And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Dr. Suess was quoted saying, “If I had walked down the other side of Madison Avenue, I’d be in the dry-cleaning business today.”
As Nazi tanks rolled into Paris in 1940, Dr. Seuss was compelled to express his feelings visually. He drew over 400 editorial cartoons. These cartoons included stereotypical and inflammatory depictions of Japanese leaders and xenophobic cartoons portraying Japanese Americans as disloyal.
In 1943, Captain Theodor Geisel reported for duty and got to work producing animated training films, booklets, and documentaries. He created cartoons featuring Private Snafu, a bumbling GI with the looks of Elmer Fudd and the voice of Bugs Bunny whose missteps were a warning to enlisted men. Work created during this time was used in 1947 when Dr. Seuss and his wife, Helen, used it as the basis for their screenplay “Design for Death” which earned an academy award.
Dr. Seuss’s wife, Helen Geisel, struggled for more than a decade with partial paralysis. Her failing health led to depression. The despair worsened with suspicions that her husband was having affair with a close friend, (who would later become Dr. Suess’s second wife). Sadly, in 1967, at the age of 68, Helen took her own life.
Helen Geisel was unable to bear children and Dr. Seuss did not father any children with his second wife, Audrey. When asked how he connected with children despite not having his own, he answered, “You have them, and I will entertain them.”
Simply put, 3D printing is scary for many teachers. They are not afraid that the printer will start printing aliens that will take over the planet. However, they are scared of the unknown. Scared of the questions that come along with the technology. How do I use it? How do I integrate this into my classroom and subjects? How do I connect this technology to the curriculum and not become a distraction? Once you get past the fear, this technology will impact your students in such a great way; you will ask yourself, Why didn’t I start this program years ago.
3D printing is not about printing trinkets. Yes printing your students favorite TV character is exciting, however integrating this excitement and connecting it to your lesson is what makes this such a powerful tool. 3D printing can unleash creativity, problem-solving, entrepreneurial thinking, and so much more.