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"The school needs children"
What your response to where you would insert the word "good" in the sentence above
Determines one of 3 things 
Whether you need an education yourself,
If you need a lesson in capitalism
Or you need the safety of illusion

"The "good" school needs children"
If you answered this way,
You need an education yourself
Well, "good" news!
Life makes you a student
A "good" or "bad" one
Is immaterial
"Good" schools rarely produce "good" children
And "bad" schools rarely produce "bad" ones

"The school needs "good" children
If you answered this way,
You need a lesson in capitalism
Your inherent "goodness" determines your usefulness to the capitalist
The "goodest" boy goes far
But only in the number of paychecks collected
Enslaved to the desk, the only measure of his worth being how much richer he made the rich man

"The school needs not to be good, and neither do the children"
If you answered this way,
You subscribe to morality being a poor measure of intelligence
You're not of this world and its hungry, insatiable demands
I'd prescribe you a dose of snowy mountains
Maybe an icy riverside cottage
Filled with a library 
Bookfuls of lofty, unordinary ideas
But wait, don't you love your Kindle too much?

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