In these hard times Of unreported unemployed voices Of ignored college graduates Of desperate youth As well as desperate old In these times Education is overlooked Pale profit wins over ethics Our youth gets pushed further Further away from their hard earned achievements Further away from their intricate dreams In these times Fresh bread is left behind to turn into mold Experience overtakes knowledge Education becomes a burden The educated are the punished When they should be awarded Education is no longer counted as experience Our interactions with one another Is no longer experience They become experience (in the eyes of employers) by the documentation of a paycheck To be qualified We must be paid to interact with each other We must be paid to use our knowledge We must be paid to develop our skills When in reality We pay for our education ourselves And in our education in which we pay We interact and learn from others without demanding to be paid In the eyes of the employer Education is not experience Eight years of college and achieving a P.H.D. Is no longer experience What employers don't realize is... Education is a full-time job A full time job that we do not get paid for Education doesn't employ us We employ education for ourselves Yet...education is still not experience When will they open their eyes and enlighten their minds? Education should never have to come last But should always come first No wonder we are behind
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