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Thread #123536   Message #2721436
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
11-Sep-09 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Useful / Useless things learnt at school
Subject: RE: BS: Useful / Useless things learnt at school
>>>Most useless: Doggerel poem called Leisure.

Most useful: enthusiasm makes a better teacher than subject knowledge.

Stu<<<



Stu, I fully agree with your 'most useful' comment there, but disagree entirely, with every breath in my soul, with your 'useless' one....

Give me Davies, over Hughes, any day. That poem, for me, exemplifies so much of what we have lost. I never learnt it at school though, needless to say... :0)

All that we are missing, through time........ 'Leisure' by W.H. Davies