<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=555317" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hard Times (from Michigan)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In these hard times<br>Of unreported unemployed voices<br>Of ignored college graduates<br>Of desperate youth<br>As well as desperate old<br>In these times<br>Education is overlooked<br>Pale profit wins over ethics<br>Our youth gets pushed further<br>Further away from their hard earned achievements<br>Further away from their intricate dreams<br>In these times<br>Fresh bread is left behind to turn into mold<br>Experience overtakes knowledge<br>Education becomes a burden<br>The educated are the punished<br>When they should be awarded<br>Education is no longer counted as experience<br>Our interactions with one another<br>Is no longer experience<br>They become experience (in the eyes of employers) by the documentation of a paycheck<br>To be qualified <br>We must be paid to interact with each other<br>We must be paid to use our knowledge<br>We must be paid to develop our skills<br>When in reality<br>We pay for our education ourselves<br>And in our education in which we pay<br>We interact and learn from others without demanding to be paid<br>In the eyes of the employer<br>Education is not experience <br>Eight years of college and achieving a P.H.D. <br>Is no longer experience<br>What employers don't realize is...<br>Education is a full-time job<br>A full time job that we do not get paid for<br>Education doesn't employ us<br>We employ education for ourselves<br>Yet...education is still not experience<br>When will they open their eyes and enlighten their minds? <br>Education should never have to come last<br>But should always come first<br>No wonder we are behind</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diana+Poems">Diana Poems</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=555317" data-title="Hard Times (from Michigan) de Diana Poems" data-description="In these hard times Of unreported unemployed voices Of ignored college graduates Of desperate youth As well as desperate old In these times Education is overlooked Pale profit wins over ethics Our youth gets pushed further Further away from their ..."></div> </div> </div>

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