Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
They. Learned. To. Code.
14-year-old boy identified as victim
in University of New Mexico dorm shooting
I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform, justly,
skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace
and war.
-John
Milton, “Of Education,” 1644
Learn. To.
Code. is the fashionable chant
Staccato’d in
every callow response
Make. America.
Great. through cliché’ and cant
To force a lath-and-plaster
renaissance
The Great
Conversation of books and thoughts
The Great
Dialectic of civilization
Are now toys,
guns, and video games, all for nought
Ferality within
a generation
Within a
generation, within a blink
They.
Learned. To. Code.
They did
not learn to think
