The Paper Plane

The story: 
Teacher ask my friends to fold a paper plane, and they did. Although using different ways of folding and hence having different forms, but still, it displays the shape of a plane. Then, the teacher ask them to fly/throw their planes, seeing whose reaches the furthest. Then, the teacher crumpled a paper and asked one of them to throw it, which turned out it exceeds the distance achieved by the 2 paper planes. The teacher points towards their paper planes and said:" who says that an aeroplane must look like this? It can be a ball, like this crumpled paper. You have to think outside the box. It's all about creativity."

Moral value:
Think from different perspectives, hence breaking the norm and let creativity set free.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

This...we agree it's a paper plane.

Then....

How about this? It could fly, too!

My POV:

An important lesson indeed. 

However, I'd like to comment that the example is not suitable. With all respect to the teacher, I think that the example is not suitable. Well, what is a plane, a paper plane to be exact? As all should have known, and as defined, a plane is a heavier-than-air-powered flying vehicle with fixed wings (source: 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aeroplane ). Applied same to the paper plane, except it is not a vehicle, but an origami, all planes must have wings! Both students have succeeded in making a paper plane, but a crumpled paper, which also, exhibits its ability to fly has no wings, hence not being categorized as a plane. I assume that the teacher sees airplanes are object that can fly. Since, do we call a rocket, a bird, Superman, a UFO, a person parachuting  a plane? 


Besides in terms of shape, both differs from force applied, method of throwing, direction of propagation , time on air, lifting force, effect of wind etc...


So, it's basically like a car could move, feeds on fuel, excretes gasses, sensitive to stimuli (alarm,sensor), but do you call it a living organism? No! why? It can't neither reproduce, nor it can grow. 


Thinking outside the box by reinventing? Then, a new name should have been created to avoid confusion.  


Leave me a comment to correct me (if I'm wrong), please?