I read this and kinda threw a hissy fit at my desk

This summer I’m basically a secretary at a company that makes custom day planners for schools. I file every planner the company produces, so I see a lot of bizarre things on the covers of books. This was probably the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen printed on the back of a planner:

“A Young Child’s Mind”

Author Unknown

I dreamed I stood in a studio
And watched two sculptors there,
The clay they used was a young child’s mind
And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher:
the tools she used were books and music and art;
One was a parent
With a guiding hand and gentle loving heart.

And when at last their work was done,
They were proud of what they had wrought.
For the things they had worked into the child
Could never be sold or bought!

And each agreed she would have failed
if she had worked alone.
For behind the parent stood the school,
and behind the teacher stood the home!

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