Thursday, April 7, 2011

Day 30, Sonnet 30

Just as the Child is Father of the Man[1],

So is the Teacher by her Students taught,

When lessons do veer from the careful plan

And wisdom is revealed in brand-new thought.

For though she is much by her training formed

In knowledge’ path she far-too-often falls

But hopeful views have much her cold heart warmed

When cynic’s theories do her patience stall.

Though she does wield the stamp of learning’s ends

The means of knowledge seep between her hands

Experience can this bookish thought transcend

And pull from tangled knots newly freed strands.

Let not the span of years one’s learning cease

For taught by Pupils, Teachers’ views increase.



[1] William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold,” (1802), line 7.

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