<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459651" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>English Teacher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">bumped into my grandson's English teacher yesterday<br>at the football, and in between shouting like teenagers<br>I moaned about the state of A's Eng. Lit. not to mention Eng. Lang. -<br>you know, you've heard it all before... in my day.....never regretted....<br>he agreed, but said go easy on the lad he's only thirteen<br>they all want to be fifteen and grown up at that age, <br>they can't be seen by their peer-group to be 'for' anything too much<br>so they ridicule everything, it's either pretentious crap if it's modern<br>or stupid ancient crap if it's more than a generation ago...<br>they even call Shakespeare a sad loser until<br>someone says he wrote the screenplay for that film<br>though they're fascinated by the idea that Marlowe<br>was a spy as well as a crap writer not that they've read him anyway</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but you know what he said<br>put them up on stage in the annual Shakespeare and make them<br>speak his lines, and they'll never forget it, <br>they'll not say anything about it to me except in private but<br>they'll remember it to their dying day it's things like that<br>he said that keep me in this bloody job. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(revisited)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459651" data-title="English Teacher de Michael Shepherd" data-description="bumped into my grandson's English teacher yesterday at the football, and in between shouting like teenagers I moaned about the state of A's Eng. Lit. not to mention Eng. Lang. - you know, you've heard it all before... in my day.....never regretted..."></div> </div> </div>

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