The Children We Must Educate
Not for them a mere certificate.
The students, they must learn,
Not solely, a degree to earn.
So what? - you've scored an A-One
Or an MBA already done?
Scored a rare distinction!
A Phd, your next destination?
What education really is,
Is something much more than this.
It's for a better understanding,
Of the life goals worth having.
It's to teach you the skills
For work, to pay the bills.
To be able to focus,
With self-control as a bonus.
To communicate your motives,
And to see in different perspectives.
To discern a subtle connection,
Beyond its rationalization.
Knowing how to face challenges,
And self-direct learning as one ages.
Developing social subtleties,
Cultural values and their varieties.
From having reason and secularity,
To making progress in scientific surety.
Endorsing democracy's history
And subscribing to liberal theory.
Discerning moral choices
By deciding among consequences,
Between deontological cues,
And picking cardinal virtues.
Yet, the most crucial thing
Is not the knowledge or the thinking.
Nor the choices you say you'll make,
But the actions you finally undertake!
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