Along with other global learning centres, we are celebrating Global Education this week and asking people to reflect on how global learning can help people to think critically about the world and equip themselves with the skills and knowledge to life fairer and more sustainable for all. Follow the hashtags #GlobalEducationWeek and #GlobalLearning to see examples of what is happening to mark the event.
Here on the Isle of Man we are privileged to have had the Manx Bard Bradley Chambers give us his own reflections in the form a poem written especially for the occasion. Thank you Bradley!
Tomorrow’s Lesson
I connect the now to the not yet
I’m a quirky, brittle thing
always
one
edge
from
your touch
I evade your definitions
even though you think you ‘know me’
But how can you know me?
I’m wild and free.
See how a baby grasps me in her perfect hand
but you held me in your arms
and were petrified you might
drop
me
You still don’t remember?
Alright. I’ll show you.
See how I race down a centillion neural pathways, build bridges, form networks.
I focus hearts
and minds because,
I’m running out
…but also catching up.
You want to restrain me?
I never let you.
I will let you shape me though.
What do you need me to be?
I draw diverse landscapes of learning and imagination
my home is the smile of a child who has
finally
found the answer
to a question.
I’m every gold star ever awarded –
and the stars sparkle tonight
the same child has begun to realise
(at an early age)
-how-connections-are-made-
this should help
in the future
