{"id":106,"date":"2009-05-14T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/05\/14\/schoolrooms-or-cells-and-gibbets-from-reading-the-key\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T12:47:40","slug":"schoolrooms-or-cells-and-gibbets-from-reading-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gingermeekallen\/2009\/05\/14\/schoolrooms-or-cells-and-gibbets-from-reading-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolrooms, or Cells and Gibbets (from Reading the Key)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/dsc_0062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-354\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/dsc_0062.jpg?w=74&amp;h=300\" alt=\"Schoolrooms, or Cells and Gibbets\" width=\"74\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>Eliza Cook was a 19th-century English poet and writer, from whose words the title of this painting is taken. She wrote that it would be better to \u201cbuild schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a compelling statement, ringing with truth. The lives of the educated most often do not include crime or injury.\u00a0 Near the base of this composition, Cook\u2019s words cradle a school picture of a young boy in 1934. What will his future hold? More schoolrooms, or cells and gibbets?<\/p>\n<p>This painting has a simple message: Education is vital. There are pages from a 1949 World History textbook presenting information about medieval classrooms and the first documented beginnings of formal education.\u00a0 Among the other mixed media, there is also a \u201ccolor plate\u201d from an even older history textbook featuring a map of Africa, where still today education is a luxury for many children.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Carter said, \u201cThe measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.\u201d\u00a0 As bright and active as they are, the children of this world, by definition, are among our \u201cweakest and most helpless citizens.\u201d\u00a0 To them is our first responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gingermeekallen.wordpress.com\/352\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ca3eb_352\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gingermeekallen.wordpress.com\/352\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ca3eb_352\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gingermeekallen.wordpress.com\/352\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/05470_352\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gingermeekallen.wordpress.com\/352\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/05470_352\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gingermeekallen.wordpress.com\/352\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/05470_352\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <img src=\"http:\/\/gingermeekallen.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/13bc1_b.gif?host=gingermeekallen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4629582&amp;post=352&amp;subd=gingermeekallen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliza Cook was a 19th-century English poet and writer, from whose words the title of this painting is taken. She wrote that it would be better to \u201cbuild schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.\u201d This is a compelling statement, ringing with truth. 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