When Will We Ever Learn?

A Productive Mistake Is: (1) Made In The Service Of Mission And Vision; (2) Acknowledged As A Mistake; (3) Learned From; (4) Considered Valuable; (5) Shared For The Benefit Of All.

In The Sixties, During The Vietnam War, When Anarchists And Pacifists And Socialists, Democrats And Republicans, Decent-hearted Americans, All Recoiled With Horror At The Bloodbath, We Came Together.

But I Decline To Say Who Has Ever Listened To Them, Who Has Written Them, Or Other People Who Have Sung Them.

Shh. Listen To The Sounds That Surround You. Notice The Pitches, The Volume, The Timbre, The Many Lines Of Counterpoint. As Light Taught Monet To Paint, The Earth May Be Teaching You Music.

Long Live Teachers Of Children, Because They Can Show Children How They Can Save The World.