Write about your purpose for going to school. Is it to “make money’ or is it for another reason ?
Format ; (4 pages min., typed, double-spaced) Use MLA format. including quotes from the poem, you wil need to cite your source (see poem) :
You Go to School to Learn
Thomas Lux
You go to school to learn to
read and add, to someday
make some money. It—money—makes
sense: you need
a better tractor, an addition 5
to the gameroom, you prefer
to buy your beancurd by the barrel.
There’s no other way to get the goods
you need. Besides, it keeps people busy
working—for it. 10
It’s sensible and, therefore, you go
to school to learn (and the teacher,
having learned, gets paid to teach you) how
to get it. Fine. But:
you’re taught away from poetry 15
or, say, dancing (“That’s nice, dear,
but there’s no dough in it”). No poem
ever bought a hamburger, or not too many. It’s true,
and so, every morning—it’s still dark!—
you see them, the children, like angels 20
being marched off to execution,
or banks. Their bodies luminous
in headlights. Going to school.
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