SELF TAUGHT
A school
For fools
Teachers teaching
Preachers preaching
Education?
Incantation
Ignorance
Intolerance
We don’t need it
They will feed it
Our attack?
Our pay-back?
Work today
Our own way
Learn it elsewhere
Wing and a prayer?
We’re not fazed
Be amazed
Be prepared
We’re not scared
It’s just a case of
Mind over matter
As someone who left school at 15, and had no further formal education at all, I fully agree with this.
ReplyDeleteoh well, daily life experiences will be a great teacher!
ReplyDeleteyes, but you are observant but the degrading scholastic services. but not all institution are like this...
Funny cause I was just thinking today, that schools are lacking.
ReplyDeleteParticularly, that they don't teach students 'how to think', merely how to repeat.. Well, oftentimes in any case..
Thanks to:
ReplyDeleteanthonynorth; School or life - others always try to impose ideas. We're left to find our way through the maze.
totomai; yes, you're right - some benefit, others fail - often no fault of their own.
leila; It has to be about encouraging people to express themselves - not always the curriculum.
I love this poem. The words and the topic. I didn't leartn anything at school. My son has LD and the school acted like a bully. I've found a good one now though. A school were they can learn and choose what they want in their own pace and were they learn to thinb for themselves. I had to bring in some structure for my son but he is happy for the first time
ReplyDeleteEducation can be a very intimidating process, especially for those whose learning needs are misunderstood, or ignored. if your son is happy now, that's a major result. It should mean his understanding develops at a pace he can cope with. I wish him well.
ReplyDeletewell said!!
ReplyDeleteChip off the old block
Thanks preethi; it applies in many cases.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent poem and point. As someone who trained to be a teacher, I am appalled at the lack of individual guidance given to kids. Saying that all students should receive the same curriculum is like saying that all men should wear a size 10 shoe. I know the analogy isn't perfect, but it's closer to the truth than most want to admit.
ReplyDeleteThanks TD; Horses for courses - abilities develop at varying paces - when I was at school, we were all expected to keep pace with the fastest.
ReplyDeleteI have one thing to say, I really got everything you said. My one thing is if you accelerate the fastest you have to make some kind of initiative to allow for some kind of counseling so they realize they are not to demand of themselves school and work responsibilities that most young adults aren't adept and balanced at successfully. It's about the emotional immaturity and early onset of health issues. Some won't slow down becaause they are so bright.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lela; It's nobody's fault that some adapt and learn fater, or slower. I just think there's more than one way to learn, and if we feel aggrieved by the methods available to us, there's still hope.
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