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Educated Error

The life of a student.  Simple and scheduled.
Wake up.  Go to class.  Read, write, listen, and take note.
Effecient in it's form, but in result it fails.
Most future leaders sit perplexed.  Absolutely baffled.
Completely unarmed to make sense of what they themselves wrote.
Educators, keep hope aloft.  Realism - trails...

Off.  On On On Off.  Long pattern of tradition.
As seasons change the lightbulbs.  Are turned on and off.  Again.
Summer break gives freedom, but at the cost of boredom and lost educations.
What breeds such issues, an unending cycle of inaction?
Teachers and politicians the people ask.  Where is the lesson plan?
Restless masses scramble in desperate search, for he who can lead billions.

Professors and scientists experiment; formulas to make education enhanced.
Experts suggest several strategies; are dissenters guilty of treason?
Yet for every person taught poorly, there exists a million dollars to the penny.
Are leaders of eras which reject old systems any more advanced?
"When learned men begin to use their reason,
then I generally discover that they haven't got any."

Author notes

Heh, if only I were as good as the author behind this quote, who sadly most probably have never heard. G. K. Chesterton, please do look into him despite the clumsiness of this work. Just sharing another quote I didn't use; "The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog."

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  • Sgt. Pepper
    October 11
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    this is exactly what i asked for. Thank you