Poetry Cafe 192: Testing Times

Playlist (texts read & music played)

1. Pink Floyd: We don’t need no education….
2. B.F. Skinner: Education….
3. R.S. Thomas: Children’s Song
4. Gervase Phinn: Creative Writing
5. Albert Einstein: The art of a teacher….
6. Tim McNamara: Language Testing (2000: 3-4, 11)
7. Brian Patten: The Minister for Exams
8. Steve Turner: The Examination
9. Sam Cooke: Wonderful World
10. R.C. Scriven: The Marrog
11. Roger McGough: Streemin’
12. Cat Stevens: The Old School Yard
13. Roger McGough: First Day at School
14. Laurie Lee: Cider with Rosie
15. Liz Lochhead: Kidspoem/ Bairnsang
16. Billy Collins: Introduction to Poetry
17. Andrea Bradley: comment on Collins’ poem
18. The Kinks: School Days
19. Shakespeare: …. the whining schoolboy….
20. Keith Roberts: To School
21. Gregory Harrison: Off to school
22. Tom Paxton: What did you do in school today?
23. Michael Rosen: Grammar Lesson
24. Bee Gees: Words
25. Quotes by Brad Henry, William Arthur Ward, Ann Liebermann
26. (anonymous): School Dinners
27. John Foster: The Rules that Rule the School
28. Beatles: Getting Better
29. Quote by Lily Tomalin
30. Felix Dennis: The Ballad of Abdul Rowe
31. Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village
32. Carol Ann Duffy: Death of a Teacher
33. Simply Red: Holding Back the Years
34. Quotes by Aristotle & George Bernard Shaw
35. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
36. D.H. Lawrence: Last Lesson in the Afternoon
37. Gregory Woods: Platonic Dialogue
38. Quotes by Patrick White & Clay P. Bedford
39. Supertramp: The Logical Song
40. Quotes by Khalil Gibran & Carl Jung
41. Alice Cooper: School’s Out