Poemranker [Replying] Thu Nov 21 21:44:41 PST 2024

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Bri's Room (not done) (Free verse) by Sunshine Conkey

A little girl named Bri had an awful lot of stuff she saved and saved it but it wasn't enough. She put it in a closet and stacked it on the floor But even when her room was filled She wanted more and more. One day while playing She wanted her special pen to draw her favorite doll. But after looking everywhere, she couldn't find them at all.

LilMsLadyPoet

16-Dec-05/3:42 PM

I promise I will scan through and find the passage if you trly want me to...I have been on a re-read-A-thon of all her stuff, so I am not sure where it is, but I believe in Fountainhead, and then resaid again in Virtue of Selfishness, I think.
Crap...I ALWAYS mispell it...that, and carress...caress...see?!
Mispelling things speaks to lack of education or motivation to be careful,it does not indicate lack of intelligence. (I admit I had to go back, take out the E again, and put in the I!)
I believe the statement is more about educating someone beyond their capacity to understand the responsibility one should assume, when one has risen in power and position because of the education he has been afforded. With great knowledge comes great responsibility. Intelligence refers to the innate ability to process and use the education one gains in a way that benefits one's slef and others. Educating a person beyond his ability to understand the responsibility that comes with increated knowledge leads to people of power who do not deserve to be in power, who do not know how to apply the knowledge they have, and who often do more harm to themselves and others than they would have had they not risen beyond a level they could fully undertstand.
(The current president kinda exemplifies my point.)

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