<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434358" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dense, Shallow and Dim</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They may have graduated! <br>And may have been declared educated...<br>With top grades and honorable degrees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are taught to shake hands, <br>With poise as they stand.<br>And give sincere eye contact...<br>With the best of spoken English, <br>That identifies an ability<br>They have been groomed to regurgitate...<br>With assumed and unresearched facts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are challenged to do their best...<br>For purposes to produce for them big fat checks! <br>They are encouraged to socialize...<br>For an increase of status, <br>And a marketable name recognition that's prized! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no one wants to criticize...<br>Their lack of common sense! <br>They seem not able to find it in books.<br>And for them a quality of life, <br>Grows more dense, shallow and dim! <br>For them who concentrate more on looks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the future leaders now groomed...<br>By those with set values too long observed.<br>Those who prefer to sit and predict doom! <br>And not daring to teach or stretch these minds, <br>Beyond the 'hand-me-down' standards <br>Taught and confined, <br>In antiquated classrooms! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaving them with little...<br>Or nothing to use to successfully compete.<br>As they constantly compared themselves, <br>To people living in hunger...<br>Sympathized on TV, <br>Or ignored as they snob them on urban streets! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They may have graduated! <br>And may have been declared educated...<br>With top grades and honorable degrees.<br>But they are not the ones to lead, <br>With a wholesomeness needed to succeed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=434358" data-title="Dense, Shallow and Dim de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="They may have graduated! And may have been declared educated... With top grades and honorable degrees. They are taught to shake hands, With poise as they stand. And give sincere eye contact... With the best of spoken English, That identifies a..."></div> </div> </div>

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