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What does the poem at this link arguing? http://www.pcc.com/lists/pedtalk.archive/0204/00020.html?

I have to analyze the poem for a class and I'm having trouble figuring out what Stern is arguing if anything. Help would be greatly aprecciated.

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1. Basically he was saying that school contradict themselves in what they teach. He says that schools teach things that will be effective for them to know in the future, but they don't teach them about other things that would be effective. He says that schools also teach unnecessary things. He argues that if schools can teach unnecessary things, then they should be able to teach anything effective in a person's future.