You have totally summarised the entire curricula of the western form of education in these four words Gail !

Your next verse leaps to the most recent horrible ongoing manifestation of the erasure of empathy...

I hope you will share your poem widely ... if I was opening a conference for educationalists, I would read your poem first....

In fact, on reflection, I am attending a seminar where I will do so, next month.

Bravo!

Imagine if every teacher took this to heart an thought about how to model empathy in her classroom...