Robots Don't Have Blood

[diannet]

It’s a bit like...well
stick this here
cut this carefully
pick that up and put that there
and don’t whatever you do stray
from the desired task
we’re not interested in your kind of flower
just the one WE want you to make
you don’t understand the world
it’s our job to set you up
for its lack of imagination
and that means sucking it out of you
before you’ve even had a chance to develop it
let alone experience it
and just so you know...
puppies are not pink
with purple spots
and I’m sorry but robots...
they don’t have blood.

[thisismyengland]

A pretty neat description of what I've observed about the education of young this is my england jr. - made worse by the school breezily using jargon about 'independent learning' which seems to have no relation to what they actually do there. Still, school is what it is. The current systems are only a little different from the one invented during the industrial revolution, designed to churn out compliant and unquestioning workers/consumers.

[Reilley]

A very interesting premise, an imaginative way of showcasing how imagination is downplayed and formula is encouraged.

[heatherwordbender]

Yep. Therein lies the {{ahem}} beauty of education, instruction. The longer the exposure the greater the degree of formatting.


Golly. Hope the degree to which this resonates doesn't distract us too much from what you've written. I'll be back.

[eiken]

Dianne,
This threw me back to those days and I was so compliant in my time. I have to smile but this is exactly how it was.

[SweetSilverBird]

This is quite a poem, Dianne, and often so true but not always, you will be relieved to hear. My daughter homeschools her 4 children, and since she is an archeologist and their father is an ex-monk, they get a rennaisance education. Those kids are really interesting and fun to talk to!

I thought it was so cool the way a robot/android's head seems to be peeking at us from the side of the page! Well done!

[diannet]

I guess this was just me voicing my frustration I sometimes have about work...I'd love to tell you the story behind the Robot, maybe in verse sometime because it was really cute, how a little kid already knows what's going on and his rebellion is sometimes but not always subtle.
I think home schooling is great, from what I've seen it would appear kids being home schooled do really well and as you say, SSB see the world differently. I'd like to say I intended the robots head but that was just coincidence...but it is kinda cool anyway.

[Fire Monkey]

I really relate to the topic and I feel that it is a good poem and it does a good job of presenting the thought. In school I was a "problem child" because I refused to give up my individuality or my creativity. Often it was seen as "trying to cause trouble" when in truth it was trying to stay human and not become a machine.

[Brigid Briton]

Hi Dianne,

I love the way you handled a very serious topic with irony and humor. A fun poem with a not-so-subtle bite. Good job!



P.S. I guess those creativity vampires must have sucked all the imagination out of me since I don't see a robot head anywhere on on page! I studied the form of the poem...but, I still don't see it.