TITLE: Unsatiated By Patrick McClure 03/18/06 |
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You can lead a horse to water but can you really make him drink
And as I say this I realize many of us didn’t grow up on farms
So I’ll try it again
You can lead a baby to smushed peaches but can you really make him eat
And again I realize that some of us aren’t parents, and perhaps have never nannied before
So I’ll say it a new way
You can lead a student to knowledge but can you really make him think
Tilt his head back and pour your pitcher of facts down his throat til he chokes
Reciting lines of dead poetry
And regurgiting countless country’s capitals in geography
Hoping just to pass then move on to math and memorize the Pythagorean Theorem
Which, let’s be honest, some of us still don’t get
When you reach the water’s brink
do you throw her in though she can’t swim
Reach out your hands on the other side and sigh when she starts to sink
Or do you instead swim freely
Smiling and basking in your own experience
Beckoning to come join in
To see for yourselves
To float and dive
Splash and ride across the lake of knowledge
Fulfilling their inquisitiveness
Succumbing to the curiosity you created in the classroom
Leaving them unsatiated, thirsty again
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