Bless The Learner Poem by John Sensele

Partial derivatives, chain rule and product rule
Pale into insignificance in comparison to a good morning
Said with felt care, felt affection, felt devotion as a tool
To bless twenty four hours in the stressed life of a darling.

Thesis statements, topic sentences and unpacked essay questions
Amount to very little in relation to a word of comfort uttered with compassion
When confusion in the mind offers reasons
For hostility, for instability, for infertility and incivility in oration.

Sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant
Tease feeble brains which they dispatch into panic mode
When examination papers challenge candidates to decant
Chaff from concepts, from algorithms and answers that implode.

Behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism
Explore aspects of learning while behaviourists label a learner tabula rasa
And cognitivists regard the learner as an information processing organism
And Lev Vygotsky's social constructivism blesses her.