Tag: capitalism
Buying Education
Can we make education something more than just a commodity?
Goddamn Money
Adolescent Class Consciousness in Billy Elliot and The Catcher in the Rye
Learning as Sacred Exploration
Written 2/4/20 for Maeser students but hopefully applies to others. Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under…
Routine
Poetry written in 2015 (early junior year of HS). Silver Key in National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The ring of my father’s phone echoes His fingers ballerina against the glass glow. I stare into darkened windows around me but cannot find another human. We move, a machine among machines. Around me, road billboards preach the cult of a…