<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To David, About His Education</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is full of mostly invisible things,<br>And there is no way but putting the mind’s eye,<br>Or its nose, in a book, to find them out,<br>Things like the square root of Everest<br>Or how many times Byron goes into Texas,<br>Or whether the law of the excluded middle<br>Applies west of the Rockies. For these<br>And the like reasons, you have to go to school<br>And study books and listen to what you are told,<br>And sometimes try to remember. Though I don’t know<br>What you will do with the mean annual rainfall<br>On Plato’s Republic, or the calorie content<br>Of the Diet of Worms, such things are said to be<br>Good for you, and you will have to learn them<br>In order to become one of the grown-ups<br>Who sees invisible things neither steadily nor whole,<br>But keeps gravely the grand confusion of the world<br>Under his hat, which is where it belongs,<br>And teaches small children to do this in their turn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410473" data-title="To David, About His Education de Howard Nemerov" data-description="The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind’s eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, Things like the square root of Everest Or how many times Byron goes into Texas, Or whether the law of the exc..."></div> </div> </div>

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