I wrote this poem for an assignment at school. It's about how the students in school during world war 2 weren't learning things that they should. They were learning about wars, and hate, and racism. The poem is written in perspective of the students in Weimar Republic during world war 2. Enjoy! :)
"We Might As Well Not Think At all"
Naturally, we'd use our brains to think
and to learn and discover new things;
but not us.
We're learning racism, hate, and the name of Hitler,
things that either shouldn't be tought
or names that give us a bad reputation.
Our minds are restrained,
limited by the government.
They don't care about our education,
only about teaching discrimination.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Might As Well Not Think At All
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....what do you think people will say about what we're learning now, 60 years in the future? How often do you learn in school about animal rights, human rights, the horrors of war, or the abuses of our government? There's no doubt that we are a more welcoming and tolerant society than the 1940's Germans, but our educational system still needs to work on teaching us to be more empathic (understanding) of the plight of others...
What do you think?
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