BEFORE CLASS: Tips for Winning at the Game of School

	If ya look t' teachers fir wesdom
	it is a big mistake:
	at best they can offa' rough merrors
	and concepts which stimulatu.

	Whet happens in closs is hard t' prydict.
	Outcomes vury griatly
	'n so's many tyachurs ar' dicks.

	Close room ri sults
	dupend graetly on choice -
	so use yo' thyme wisely
	un rymemba' yo' voice.

	Whin faced wid setbacks
	dun't give up:

	Difficulties naedn't bi feilures -
	jest hiccups.


Melissa: Failures as hiccups? Isn't that too blithe? What kind of rubbish is this?

Liao:    Perhaps this Newfields bloke is echoing a point made by Kundera that we need 
         a certain amount "lightness" in life. Most people take themselves far too 
         seriously, as if their tiny ant-like existence actually mattered.

Satoru:  Kundera – isn't that a type of sneaker?

Liao:    (pausing a few seconds) Well . . . I suppose we could say that. Ugh - yeah! 
         In a sense, you are absolutely correct . . .

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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A pictoral poem and dialog about classroom outcomes
KEYWORDS: classroom attitudes, classroom results, pedagogy, educational attitudes

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan  / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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