Teach Your Children Well
Teach Your Children Well
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
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Unexamined Shadow Life
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This is surely true
To Not know oneself
Is to not know anything
You can teach child
Give them the tools to build a life
If you only teach them to walk
In straight lines
Follow commands of others
Ignore their own voice
You kill what lives within them
It takes strength and courage
To walk ones, individual path
To find answers to questions
Only you can know
No one can tell another
Their meaning or purpose
No one can tell another
What is right or wrong
What is one person's truth
Is another's falsehood
Another's treasure
Ideological filters blind
Even a perfect teaching
Can be a shackle
If adopted without question
What is true in one moment
May not be true in another
You cannot step in the same river twice
Thus spoke Heraclitus
All is in flux
Change is the only constant
Teach a child rigid falsehoods
Is to set in rigor mortis of the Mind
Death of the spirit
If not death
Deep hiding
Many can never pull themselves out
Trapped in Plato's Cave
Believers in Shadows
On the wall.
Teach Your Children Well
Leave the shadows behind
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Written by David And many moons ago and revised on August 30, 2022
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Image Swansea Council
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