A book and a pen

Response to book and a pen

         By: Vaine Rasmussen

Not sure about what this author is talking about.

 I mean after all those years

 of going inside and outside of school and in the end

saying “I missed a lot”?

 how big is that plank in your eye that

you, a graduate can not see the reality?

“They gave me a book and pen” is this not English?

“Set-rule and calculator to play with” is clearly for maths.

And “test tubes and Bunsen burners” are more likely to be science.

Are you not happy that you are educated?

 Not everyone gets the opportunity

You are lucky enough to wear those shoes in your feet

Maybe nobody needs education if everyone

is like Bill gates or Steve Jobs.

high school drop outs

yet, invented the great future.

but even this people went through school

and learned that great ideas

 are often found

in a piece of paper

written with a pen or a pencil.

You think calculations are useless,

Well think again.

 how many days, months or even years sill you

spend to obtaining your dreams.

and that perfection can only be achieved through

thousands and thousands of experimentation and repetition.

“When I was at University they gave me another book and a pen

Marx’s theories and Solzhenitsyn’s literature to debate discuss and agree over.

This is where students never understood what schools do for us.

Yea we may never be able to use formulas, verb phrases or astronomy after leaving school

but isn’t this just a formal translation

 of you arguing with your best friends about what each of you

can become after graduating?

Admit it in school you’ve learned

 to love, to suffer, to party and to sacrifice

but most important of all

you’ve learnt how to be yourself

The heck with those A+,B+, or C+

 who needs those anyway right?

They’re just those fancy displays on your C.V.

As if you need those for a better career in life.

Just don’t you dare go regretting your actions once the time of judgement

comes

Where you,

 yourself reach the point of no return.

So next time you call school time a waster

think again you would have never

Be able to write this poem if you took your education for granted.