1 Hour a day of Poetry: Can they be so blind?

Can they be so blind?

"Education, according to Dieter Lenzen,

president of the Freie Universität Berlin 1994,

"began either millions of years ago or at the end of 1770"

So, my friends

which camp do you sit in?

Education has moved from the metaphysical to the physical.

We could have talked about it as a way, a means,

we might have discussed it from a philosophical point of view.

We might have talked about learning style

or teaching theory

or by curriculum

for, we are all teachers

and for that matter, learners too,

well some of us anyway.

but now education has become a 'good', it has currency,

a country can adjust it, have more of it or less of it.

However,

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,...

and unfortunately

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

has our current government thought about this?

They seem not to have remembered the past,

or even the present!

Can they be so blind that they only see

everything from their own perspective?

We deal not with things, objects

nor with outputs.

It is not even brains,

it is with minds that we work,

with people

Why would you want less for your people?

When you could have more?

NZ National Government begins again...aiming for 1770.