Nursery Rhyme of Education

[liberated]

Secular and religious appear as segregation
In unity they were a celestial combination
Sadly they are a source of division
Their marriage alone grants us vision

Intelligence not memory is the measure
So acquisition isn’t devoid of pleasure
Earnest aim is concept, not fact
Information can yield only tact

Sow that kernel of creation
Parrots, better at imitation
How shall you judge superiority?
When the criterion is conformity

You know not if wrong or correct
If the tower of logic alone is erect
Food for both spirit and mind
Or the heart would turn blind

Enlightened path is to be shown
And not making of mental clone
For it’s nectar to yield honey
Hunger isn’t power or money

Alike are not knowledge and ability
You only fly with wings of humility
Yet piety and genius, a dual yardstick
Or try never to cure a world, so sick.

[liberated]

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[hillwalker]

I would hardly call this a nursery rhyme... even if it was meant tongue-in-cheek.

It's all a little too abstract, although I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that intelligence is increasingly measured by memorizing and conforming rather than by comprehension and imagination.

To be honest it's written far too heavy-handedly. And don't get me started on the way you twist the syntax in order to maintain the rhyme...

H