Short Pedagogy Poems

Principles are like procedures we live by
Educating ourselves with things that go by
Doing things the right way we believe in
Affirming we're always right as we thrive and bang in
Getting along with thoughts and actions of all
Over and under our ideas that confront us all
Growing with everybody is what we want for all
Yours is my love, my choice, that conquers all...

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Consider the practice of pedagogy.
Sounds less like a noble profession,
And more like a pervert’s kinky fetish,
A groomer’s form of fieldcraft.
Socrates taught Plato,
Just as Shumann mentored Brahms.
Einstein tutored Oppenheimer,
And so inspired those bombs.
When a student has mastered a subject, 
Does the teacher proclaim it success?
Or is there regret in awareness
Of the genie set loose on the world?
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