Our hard-working headmaster has become fond (perhaps a little over-fond) in our first few months of operation of invoking the image of what we are seeking to accomplish here as "building a plane after it's taken off".
It may have become a rather over-used cliché this past decade or so, particularly in the business world (indeed, it appears to have first arisen in Silicon Valley), but.... it is an undeniably potent - and often all too painfully apposite - metaphor.
Given the very tight time schedule within which we have had to try to plan for, and build, and staff this school, to furnish and equip it, to frame its policies and devise a curriculum for it... well, it's no surprise that a lot of these essential preliminaries are still ongoing - even as we become consumed with the day-to-day responsibilities of looking after our students and trying to create valuable educational experiences for them.
It's not the way one would ever choose to do things, in an ideal world.... but it is oddly exhilarating!
I discover that one of the first - and certainly most striking - illustrations of the analogy appeared way back at the start of the Noughties, in this TV commercial for EDS (Electronic Data Systems, a business services subsidiary of Hewlett Packard).
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