HONOU RABLE TEACHER SEITHY L. CHACHAGE* 1. Honourable teacher My friend Will you understand this Will you If you won't You ought to be hit Knocked hard on the head Yes These are confused thoughts Writings of a boy Sick with life Knocked with big volumes of Bourgeois knowledge confused In a chaotic state A life hungry brat 2. Good So you don't understand Mmmh Ask me Two times two equals what I know it is one fool The teacher says I am wrong What Wrong shit! You black headed pig I am wrong Jesus! damn it What is the answer then Look here son The answer is 209 * Form Six Arts 3, Mzumbe Secondary School. F UTAFITI o U R How Why four and not ten How do you know that How do you know that there is four How do you know that it exists Tell me You don't know eh And what knowledge is that Yees You crammed from one to infinity What a fool Yes you are a fool because You can't prove it You can't give me any answer even if I asked you To prove your existence 3. Tell me How do you know that you are alive You can't You don't even know yourself I am asking you My teacher Honourable teacher with a cap of degrees M.A., B.A., B.Sc., M.Sc .... What do you know of life No! You don't know I suppose you are so green You are nuts Your brain is dirty full of stinking water Do you know what life means 4. Why You teach people You make them cram 210 UTAFlTl Yau make Ihem pass exams bourgeois exams they must cram what you teach You don't teach them to be critical You give them They take So the process goes You are right And they are wrong You discipline And th~y are disciplined Say is that education Why can't you teach them about dialectics about materialism and do you know what these things are No you don't They taught you and you teach They dipped you in civilisation a pit full of shit and shamelessly You smear that shit In the brains of innocent people You cause brain decadence You are a disease 5. Say Yau call yourself an educator ceh Did you ever ask yourself What type of education you got Ask a peasant What education means He will tell you; "Get educated and become a minister" Exploit people Does this liberate people Does your knowledge do so 211 6. Ask me anything Go to the people VTAFITI Ask them what they eat wear the rags they wear puff the "Goso"+ they smoke Analyse that And that is education Teach the people about themselves Teach them to solve problems Teach them to be critical Teach me, all the people to be critical Teach us to be extreme leftists not zombies 7. You are confused sir excuse me Honourable you I know you couldn't listen You were thinking about your wife fanning herself Powdering her armpits You were thinking of the delicious food ready for you You were drawing a mental picture of the toybus You bought for your son Imported from ENGLAND you were thinking of big money promotion I know Money means a lot to you So long as you corrupt people With your lousy knowledge You are content You'll be earning more money The sweat of the peasants Used to corrupt their own sons For how long will this go on Say teacher "II;' yop 8. You are ashamed + Goso-home-made tobacco. 212 UTAFITI I know that because you have been found wrong You are supposed to be right not so honourable teacher Yes that is it Say sir Will you beat me Will you sack me out of school Will you Because I have spat on your face but I say Down with you Down with your bourgeois education We want to learn How to solve problems That is education We want to learn of the people Eh did you understand that if you didn't, drop dead It won't be a loss to us we down trodden 213