The Theroy of General Relativity

Proclaiming scientific evolution diffidently

Came from a man

who didn't pass his college entrance exams.

 

"To be or not to be"

To be a middle school dropout

That is what he happens to be.

 

What is it that we want?

"To henceforth and forever be free"?

Another quote from another man

who couldn't multiply three times three.

 

What is my point?

What am I trying to say?

What is the point of these endless school days?

Why do we sit and listen

when we could stand and be risen?

Why do we drown in homework

while our curiosity explodes like a firework?

Why do we let ourselves be confused

and let our hearts go unused?

A world where the brain dominates,

but our happiness and joy: exterminate?

What is the point?

What. Is. The. Point.

 

What if

instead of being held at gunpoint at the end of a cliff

we are taught to be expressive

Instead of being obsessive over the test next week

Instead of being taught that your opinions

aren't good enough and weak

that they are brilliant and you are brillinat.

And yes, you are allowed to speak

Speak. Speak out.

Let your words be heard

because there is no right or wrong answer in this world.

 

A? B? C? Just letters of the alphabet

Not a grade that you get

About facts you will soon forget.

Be graded on your effort

even if you are not clever

Because no child deserves to not be enough.

Every child is a genius.

In the words of a faliure named Einstein,

"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will

live its entire life believing it is stupid."

And you are not stupid.

you will never be stupid.

 

And

Why at eighteen are we released

when we might as well be deceased

dead like zombies

and mainly just copies

of what society wants us to be.

And what happens?

What happens when our sentence is done?

We are given to another warden

and given the adult's burden

and told our childhood is done.

Just like that.

We have lost the best years of our lives

not to drugs, or alcohol, or anything else

No, they've been stolen

by an institution promoting

the fundamentals of memorization

and the skill of sleeping with your eyes open.

 

Let it be known

that any kindling of imagination 

any fibers of creation 

should be brought to the surface 

not be proclaimed imperfect.

Learing isn't a nineteen year struggle;

It's life's greatest puzzle.

It deserves to be enjoyed

not a passion to be destroyed.

"observe good faith and justice toward all men"

not a statement. An exclamation.

But he had no education. 

Oh, it's nothing but an uneducated whim.

The words of our country's first president.

That's right, that's Geroge Washington's words.

So yes, you can be heard

even if your grades are not superb

And no, it isn't fair

that school has become a coroner's affair.

The worst part of the school day should be the end not the beginning.

We should be excited to learn

But we aren't anymore. That's the problem.

So, wake. up.

Smell the change.

Because we are tired of being taught 

that life is defined by a grade.

 

 

 

 

Our uneducated heros:

Abraham Lincoln

Albert Einstein

Shakespeare

Geroge Washington