Never Mind The Journey, Feel The Ride

When the journey is from sophistication
to sophistry it will be that subtle
that most won't recognise
their final destination
when they have arrived.

They will argue that their world has changed
but they remain who they always were.

But the wise around them know
that when the world changes
it also change them, keeping them part of it,
and the sophist will be left behind
to face the future by living in the past.

 

When Size Matters

The problem with teaching competitiveness
is that the teacher always has to be bigger
than the taught, and when small pupils
grant themselves the superiority over others
that they imagine their teachers have over them
then the teacher is every right to be scared
and ask; 'When my pupils exercise power
over people who are weaker, and more tender
than they are, will they have the same humility
that I once aspired, or presumed, to have?'.