Poems About Education

1. Education

The zeal without education is fire without light
But zeal with education is fire with flames of light
I have seen the holy well with it watercress plants
Where one drinks and never goes taste again,
Fools and madman speak pure truth about it temperaments,
This well gives eminent fruit and the fruit never perish,
When buying it is expensive but it water never dries.

I have seen the great treasure were it is hidden,
It is dinged by the sons of patient in situations
Those who have wolf in their belly never play around,
They pass like some swam of bees and regret later.

I have seen the bread of the internal soul,
It never dry, get rotten nor get finish in you,
Ones you eat it lives in you,
Those served with it never ask for second help.

I have found a great weapon of the millennium age,
It is greater than the sharp spears of our ancestors,
With this dynamite you destroy the vocabulary of poverty,
You pass where people are closing,
You ride running like a strike of a thunder in communities.

Phinda Mkhonta

2. Do You Really?

Do you really
Want to take me on
And challenge
What I really know

You just think that
I don't know anything
Because I don't have
A college education

Jerry Abrahamson

3. School Dropout

He never went to school
But he was no fool
He was simply playing Mr Cool
Eyes closed by cottonwool
Cheered on my mates
Sealed his present faith

There is a time to play
A time to go to school
His parents told him
Make that your number one rule
He wholly ignored them
How can education
be a such golden gem

Now he sobs, sobs, sobs
Now he robs, robs, robs

No qualifications
Zero education
His mates have moved on
to better jobs
In many glorious nations

Now he sobs, sobs, sobs
Now he robs, robs, robs

He wishes he was a student
He wishes he had the talent
He had at one moment

There are no more screams and shouts
Because he knows what he is all about
He is a school dropout

Copyright 2005 - Sylvia Chidi

4. Stay In School

Stay in school, don't be a fool
A dropout gets left out
A dropout gets pushed out
Show me your name, what does it mean
Show me your ring, you're in the scene
Without an education there is no beginning
With education you are winning
Stay in school, student maintain your cool
It's so hard to get a job now days
Without education just be on your way
Show me your car, what does it prove?
Show me youe diploma, you're in the groove
You don't have to be smart to finish school
But you are a square if you are not there
Dropout, you can start back
Students that are in school
You are on the right track
You can stand around the corner
Watching the school bus go by
You know deep down inside you want to cry
It is good to stop drinking
It is good to stop smoking
When you are thinking about stopping your education
My friend you better start thinking

Leon Thomas Lee

5. The Education of the Young Mind

The education of the young mind
Took place
Behind closed doors
Because that mind -
Initially free -
Had to be
Taught
The value of freedom.

The education of the young mind
Took place
In an open space
Because that mind -
Once closed -
Had to be
Set free
To explore itself.

Peter Stavropoulos