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ON TEACHING AND BEING TAUGHT
Miss Adams teaches at our school.
We seldom see her smile.
She is so busy teaching books,
She overlooks the child.
She drills and drills and drills some more.
The children busy stay.
She hammers home the facts and rules
In every single day.
Now, Mrs. Jones across the hall
Knows how to cast a spell.
She spends more time a- listenin’
To what the children tell.
They talk about the things they do;
They tell of what they see.
They take their books and reason out
Just what they want to be.
I’m sure Miss Adams thinks that she
The better job can do.
But Mrs. Jones would win my vote
As better of the two.
By Frances V. Brintle, Home Life, April 1990