What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs
or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to
the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it
was that they banned.
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“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about
family values and almost always about control; About who is
snapping the whip, who is...
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What would be truly wonderful would be to imagine (if not actually attend) a performance of these immortal works delivered by a "human mic", wherein phrases are shouted back by the students at the teacher... oops, audience at the poet?
(The uncanny echoing-back of phrasal units at the recent "Occupy" assemblies seemed to these old ears, eerie indeed... somewhat evoking those old submarine movies in which the depth charges are pinging around outside the hull, and might explode at any time.)
Now that would be funny . . .
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