SCHOOL...

(Tunnels of darkness where truths can be concealed)

School! Where admired and respected philosophies have been taught for generations, inside schoolhouses from pre-school to graduate school. On campuses with beautiful hillsides and spacious landscape, some covered with magnificent oak, and pine trees, etc.

For generations... great stories of great men have been discarded, never to leave the shelves of those tunnels of darkness.

School! An adventure supposedly worth taking. Shedding light on darkness throughout history. Covering all subjects from the alphabet, to learning a third, maybe even a fourth language.

The tunnels of understanding are many to choose from... Or maybe not!

The tunnels in which the average student is guided are limited and pre-selected. Now, unfortunately the number of wrong directions one can be led are unlimited for certain members of these United States of America.

For these members the information highway is set up with nothing but detours. If I am to understand correctly, darkness is where this adventure is supposed to begin, not end up. 

Where in the darkness, the throats of Ancestors have been slashed. Slashed, not to keep the Ancestors from speaking out, but to keep them from being heard by those who come behind them.

From being able to express their philosophies, their beliefs! 

School! A strange place it can be at times - these halls of higher education. Again, unfortunately, certain tunnels of darkness are not on the agenda of frontiers to be explored. When at any moment, a light of knowledge can shine through.

If only the words of a wise man could be heard. If only the power of knowledge of self could be released. 

The potential and the possibilities become unlimited! 

Trying to live another man's life. Another man's History. Average men, with average stories. 

There are reasons why men feel great about themselves, and about their stories. 

It is because the greatness is felt from within. But only if there is light allowed to shine, where darkness now reigns.

In these halls of higher learning, the spark of the children of a "People" has been extinguished, before we ever had a chance to see the brightness of their light...

SCHOOL! It should be what we have come to understand. Not what we are led to believe.

                                                          Written by: Sherman Shepherd!