The Death of an English Panel

The death has come much earlier than anyone knows

before we arrived at this new low when CMI was introduced four years ago

before all but four teachers said "No!" two three years ago

to the extra duty of teaching every class choral for the Speech Festival

Death - not moving - no flow - of breath - or blood - of ideas - of experience - of taking in - or givinng out

in the big body, among small bodies, circulations of energy through self natural moves has been rare if in existence

There has never been any co-ordination, horizontal or vertical it was reported in the reports

there is

however

every toreador

fighting to his last gasp 40 or more oxen and bulls

in his own cooped up lonely arena now more shut off one from the other

Your Panel's life or death is nobody's serious matter so long as the biggest body is functioning

So consider yourself a success you can tackle 40 or more cooped up, pent up fiery animals

Haven't they told you

you are employed as a lion tamer

never an educator

Tame before teaching, can't tame can't teach

Golden rule still holds true.

Among the tamers

give face, is the game

For face ....

No failure is picked at

For face

No mistakes need to be admitted

For face

Help never seeked Never asked for and never given

For face

Problems never really discussed

Situation never improving

Each protecting his own way of doing things

Nothing is standardized

Every one's way different from the other's

And the strongest tamer of animals

who has the blindest belief in his way

becomes king of the zoo

Yet not for long

They reign with fear

Yet after the reign finishes

Those suppressed souls will turn all the more rebellious and uncontrollable

More anti-learning

Thus lay the death of students' English learning and the English Panel

For so much depends on interest and self motivation now pushed far down to oblivion

Though everybody knows the yoke of education has been too heavy

And CMI is an attempt to make it light

What the lifting has done is making every student crippled

But having lifted it for three years

The heaviness is just too much when what has been lifted for so long suddenly comes back

Recently there has been a lot of reloading of what has not been loaded in these three years

Calves are now crushed almost to death

hardly moving an inch

But onward must it move

And to make it move onward

We continue to heap on more straw

So they will have enough feed

when they are on their own

in loftier grounds higher places

Are they strong enough to take it

Will they crumble under the suddenly added heavy pressure

Next year will tell

if the students will crush

Followed by the English Panel