<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444491" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Intimidate The Minds Of Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love to intimidate, <br>The minds of children.<br>Especially the ones believing, <br>They know everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But why intimidate them? <br>You should be encouraging, <br>Their eager minds to grow.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh...<br>I do.<br>I allow them to express to me, <br>What it is they 'think'.<br>And then I say something, <br>Totally nonsensical...<br>To observed them becoming confused.<br>That's when their minds are their most creative.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That's not being supportive.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And allowing them to grow, <br>Believing they know 'everything' is? <br>Without exploring their imaginations? <br>I want them to be curious.<br>To be more inquisitive about life.<br>And that 'is' being more supportive, <br>Than anything else I can do.<br>I'm giving them an alternative, <br>To a lifetime of choosing to being screwed up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look what believing they know everything, <br>Has done to their parents.<br>You can not tell them anything to comprehend.<br>Before a sentence is finished on any subject matter, <br>They want to tell you where they've gone to school.<br>Where they've been.<br>And how much they've earned, <br>From acquiring a college degree.<br>With planned vacations and retirements scheduled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That is success for a lot of people.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's an assembly line producing failures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A life of knowledge is not obtained in college.<br>And one's happiness is not determined on test scores.<br>Sometimes one plus two, <br>Might equal three times the desperation.<br>Causing one to know more about division of property, <br>If things don't work out as expected.<br>And being skilled in mathematics under stress, <br>Is not healthy for the mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too much evidence of that, <br>They can find on their own time.<br>To select and accept or ignore.<br>Today...<br>I'd like to see them searching the landscape, <br>Of vast possibilities.<br>They are my future too.<br>And I want them to know that.</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=444491" data-title="To Intimidate The Minds Of Children de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I love to intimidate, The minds of children. Especially the ones believing, They know everything. 'But why intimidate them? You should be encouraging, Their eager minds to grow.' Oh... I do. I allow them to express to me, What it is they 't..."></div> </div> </div>

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