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We Found Defiance
 
Hello Dewey, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because your vision of the best teaching
Wasn’t lost in spite of their preaching
And the lessons that were planted in my brain
still remain
Because I found defiance
 
Though Piaget was not condoned 
By all the ed reformer clones
and Maslow’s theory was dismissed as trite
We knew that what he said was right
And the hierarchy of kid’s needs had not been met
We’ll not forget
Because we found defiance
 
And in the dimmest days we saw
A certain psychometric flaw
Students testing without thinking
Students hearing without listening
Students writing words that computers then would score
But we’ll ignore
Because we found defiance
 
“Fools,” said we, “you do not know
Junk science helps your cancer grow
hear our words that we might teach you
Watch our kids and we might reach you
But our dreams like measured rainbows died
Into the tide
Until we found Defiance
 
 
And the billionaires all prayed
To the data god they made
And Ed bloggers flashed out their warnings
Of the education de-formings
And the sign said if schools are for profit
We will lose all we have gained
 
But we’ll stay sane
 
Because we found defiance.

Larry Graykin and Barry Lane

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from More Than A Number: Songs for Sane Schools, released May 12, 2013
Music by Paul Simon, words by Larry Graykin and Barry Lane

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Barry Lane Vermont

I write songs about kindness for children and songs about hope and justice for adults.

I love Pete Seeger, and believe, as he did, that a single song can help change the world by uniting hearts and minds.


We are the mixed fruit of one tree,

Live in peace and unity.

Forget the old
embrace the new,

Less me, me, me,
more

You, you, you.

For now is the New Day. ... more

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