Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — WHEN SCHOOL IS OVER [ARTICLE]

WHEN SCHOOL IS OVER

By DOUGLAS MALLOCH

"WELL, school is over,” so they say. They come and put their books away. Exams are over, they have passed, And so they’re through with school, at last; Or so they say--and so I thought When there was nothing teachers taught That I would ever need to know. Yes, so they think, and I thought so. Like them, I thought that school was through, And no more studying to do. And yet I find at every turn That learning is to learn to learn. The problems that had bothered one Were not all over, just begun. Life has its scholar and its fool, For life is just another school. No patient teacher will explain. Now our own brawn and our own brain Must work the problem out alone, The answer hidden, rule unknown. We now must turn from book and text, From each old problem to the next. Now school is oyer, so they say; They really start to school today. ©, 1933, Douglas Malloch.--WNU Service.