.
What right have we
To be self-satisfied?
Do we really want our offspring
To be mirrors of ourselves?
Is it good enough for them ~
The best of us, or the worst of us?
We train our children to think
IN the box ~ or not to think at all!
Don’t rock the boat!
No freedom of thought ~
What a blunder ~
Farting against thunder!
Education is just masturbation
Stroking your ego for a job not done.
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©Denise G Allen, 26 September 2013 06:29
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26/09/2013 at 7:32 am
Reblogged this on Icanbeatit.
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30/09/2013 at 3:56 pm
Thank you for the re-blog. 🙂
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30/09/2013 at 4:31 pm
You are welcome 🙂 🙂
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26/09/2013 at 7:37 am
I have to give this the five star treatment… brilliant…
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30/09/2013 at 3:57 pm
Thanks for the very nice comment, Bulldog. 🙂
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26/09/2013 at 2:16 pm
preach it….we def train kids not to think….or we let them think too much…i think there is a middle ground we often miss….we have to train them to think for themselves as well…and how that looks…
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30/09/2013 at 3:59 pm
I think education has definitely gone downhill, Brian. I think it boils down to quantity over quality and this shouldn’t be the case if the internet is used effectively.
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26/09/2013 at 3:24 pm
We should be helping them to learn how to look at all sides
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30/09/2013 at 4:00 pm
How true that is, Sidey.
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27/09/2013 at 1:10 am
Of course, local education is progressively failing to teach any thought whatsoever, whether inside or outside the box.
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30/09/2013 at 4:04 pm
That’s because the teachers in the outlying areas are (largely) untrained and inexperienced .
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27/09/2013 at 3:03 pm
STILL A LOT TO LEARN
After years in its jails
I suggest that education
Be no longer obligatory
(Thinking through why
A refusal of compliance
Invites legal penalties
Raises some less than
Altogether comfortable
Questions, by the way)
There’d still be schools
But children expected
Not to go unless they
Found it worthwhile
Useful, even – God
Forbid – enjoyable
And teachers’ salaries
Based on attendance
True pupil power at last
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30/09/2013 at 4:05 pm
I love the last stanza, Ben. 🙂
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30/09/2013 at 5:26 pm
I am very grateful for the inspiration. 🙂
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