For Jilly’s 28 Days of Unreason, day 11. I am posting late but hopefully not unreasonably so. 🙂 Each day, there is a different quote from the poet Jim Harrison to inspire us. Below is our prompt-quote for this day:
“Nearly everything we are taught is false except how to read”
~ Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason
School taught me, yes, how to read,
And how to sound intelligent when speaking,
Math and science and many other subjects
But it was also subjecting
Me to too much second-guessing,
And falsities about what makes a person worthy.
I’ve had to unlearn what is untrue,
Working on it every day —
New knowledge will be here to stay.
This loops and folds around on itself with clever word play and twists, couching the truth is gentle form. Superb!
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We likely spend a good many years unlearning some of what we were taught in high school. But thank heaven for reading!
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Yes, this sounds right!
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A sea on unlearning awaits us on that subject. A timely write!
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Yes, so very true! There is so much to unlearn indeed!
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