Why We Oppose Schools For Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CD EF GH EI JK DLM NOC PHQ| By the Children's Anti School League | A |
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| Because education is a burden not a right | B |
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| Because not one tenth of one per cent of the children of this | C |
| country have demanded education | D |
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| Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and | E |
| we don't want to | F |
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| Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be | G |
| educated | H |
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| Because we can't see that it has done so much for grown ups and | E |
| there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect | I |
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| Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without | J |
| going to school | K |
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| Because it would make dissension between parent and child Imagine | D |
| the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his | L |
| or her child | M |
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| Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre the | N |
| baseball field and the moving picture We believe that schools would in | O |
| a great measure deprive us of this | C |
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| Because our parents went to school They love us they take care of | P |
| us they tell us what to do We are content that they should be educated | H |
| for us | Q |
Alice Duer Miller
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