Kim J. Baaden, Germany
- Observe precisely
the traffic on the roads,
anywhere in the world.
You will learn more
about the citizen’s mindset
than through 1000 conversations. - Certificates are the goal.
Factual knowledge is the measure.
Corporal punishment is the method.
Critical thinking and creativity
are sentenced to death.
Discipline is above self-discipline.
Reward is greater than honor,
punishment greater than reward.
Argh
I ask you fervently,
awake and grow! - The caterpillar fungus, fully sly,
moving through the larva of the ghost moth,
half plant and half animal.
Makes the man full of lust. - With raised index finger
the king proceeds
towards unification
and with raised pinky
towards another direction.
The King, the human. - All the power to the parents!
All the power to the teachers!
All the power to the students!
All the power to the state!
All the power to the powerful!
All the power to the powerless!
With power
everybody does what he likes. - The pressure at school
leads into freedom
after ten years.
Shake
a bottle of Cola,
open it,
and you will see the result!
[Kim J. Baaden, a German citizen, is a poet, social worker and philanthropist. Research, training and development in leadership studies and practices are his areas of involvement. He is the German bureau chief of Jara Foundation. He is the author of Shifting Cultivation and Deforestation in Asia, Nepal in the Internet, Nepal: Myths and Realities and a few other works.]