<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544340" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>(Africa poems) Gloom is what they confuse with true teaching</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old teacher! <br>You said...<br>If you're going to be<br>A street sweeper<br>Have the decency to be<br>The Oscar winning street sweeper! <br>Old teacher! <br>You said...<br>If you're going to be a mother<br>Make sure you mother them<br>To be responsible patriotic Africans! <br>Old teacher! <br>You said...<br>If you're going to be teachers<br>And doctors and lawyers<br>If you're going to represent Africa<br>In the sports arenas and the world forums<br>Do so with pride and dignity and brilliance! <br>Old teacher! <br>You said....<br>Be not like the plastic teachers<br>You see whose lessons lack the verve<br>And the soul and the love<br>Gloom is what they confuse with<br>The noble art of teaching<br>Don't be like them and<br>Their easy to forget lessons<br>That are without depth<br>And it reflects in the backlash of their pupils<br>Ad they loath their weak teachers<br>They don't respect them because<br>They are false teachers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ngaka+Motaung">Ngaka Motaung</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=544340" data-title="(Africa poems) Gloom is what they confuse with true teaching de Ngaka Motaung" data-description="Old teacher! You said... If you're going to be A street sweeper Have the decency to be The Oscar winning street sweeper! Old teacher! You said... If you're going to be a mother Make sure you mother them To be responsible patriotic Africans! Ol..."></div> </div> </div>

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