Can the panel please recite a poem that they learnt by rote at school, and explain how this has been useful in their subsequent careers?
>>24749209>I teach five year olds, and we've been doing poetry... making them recite poems would be a waste of my time and a waste of their time
>I think politicians should listen to the experts and the experts are teachers, and we have excellent teachers out there and we should trust them.
>>24749209The mistake that the school system makes is assuming that every child is equal and worthy of a proper education, that all the children of the nation have the potential of flourishing into a proper adult if given the right guidance. But there are people like you, OP, who are clearly born as animals, for not only you do not resent being treated like cattle, you desire it. For people like you there should be special schools that don't teach anything outside what is strictly required by whoever has the most money, power and political capital at any given moment, and art, mathematics, philosophy, science and literature should be reserved for those of us who have a soul. This would save a lot of effort and a lot of taxpayer money.
>>24749232nta but I just find it annoying that you effectively need a very high grade in poetry to get a good course on engineering in my country
>>24749232t. Alastair Moneybrooke, Tory MP for Old Sarum
>>24749232>>24749231once in a lifetime temporal POST concomitance btw
>>24749209>Into my heart an air that kills >From yon far country blows: >What are those blue remembered hills, >What spires, what farms are those? >That is the land of lost content,>I see it shining plain, >The happy highways where I went >And cannot come again....>To pour scorn on it [reciting poetry from memory] ... is to declare yourself a spiritual desert>If you don't know the literature and the poetry and the music of your own country ... then you've lost touch with what your ancestors knew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoAQW_DBI4
>>24751853Why? You already did what you set out to do by aping the video. There’s no topic for discussion here. Yes yes, Hitchens based and proles cringe, very good.
>>24751861recite me a poem
To the best of my recollection, here's an excerpt from the Wasteland I memorized like 10 years ago. We're going by the honor code.What are the roots that clutchWhat branches grow out of this stony rubbish?Son of Man, you cannot say, or guess,for you know only a heap of broken images.Where the sun sets, something somethingsomething the dry stone gives no water,the shelter no relief.something somethingWhat's that underneath something rock?Come in under the shade of this red rockand I'll show you something differentfrom either your shadow at morning, tailing behind you,or your shadow at evening, rising to greet you.I'll show you fear in a handful of dust.
I can half remember some of the stuff that I studied on my GCSE English Literature syllabus and I tend to be more drawn to international literature in general I hated nearly every moment of secondary school, with most of the classes devolving into total anarchy because the badly behaved students made it impossible for the teachers to do their job Granted everyone in their early to mid teens is quite immature, but this was immaturity to the point of stupidity because we're increasingly bombarded in our culture by instantly gratifying, impulsive low quality entertainment. Many of the students come from a low socioeconomic background whose parents are probably just as neglectful and short-sighted as they areThe current British education system basically reduces education to a basic utilitarian method of retaining information to pass exams and then expelling and forgetting it after, which in turn makes the method of learning so crude and reductive that it defeats the purpose of even teaching it in the first place, with no sense of wonder for the subject being encouraged and learning as in end in itself
>>24749209The first quadrant is all positiveIn the second, only sineIn the third — tangent and cotangentAnd in the fourth — cosine.
>>24749209The tigerHe destroyed his cageYesYESThe tiger is out
