according to the poet how does formal education curb a learner's potential in the poem the school boy
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This poem by William Blake is about formal education and requests parents to allow their children to play as well.
The School boy cannot pay even a minute of attention to his lessons and his mind is roaming outside in the Green Fields.
The young school boy feel like a caged bird dreaming of freedom and wishes to play and have fun outside.
The poet requests readers to understand that there must be a balance between studies and play so that there is all round development of the child.
❋ The poem expresses William blake's ideas regarding education and learning.
❋ Blake is said to have distrusted all forms of conventional and formal education.
❋ With the school boy has his mouthpiece (Spokesperson), the poet wonders how a bird born for joy and freedom can sing when it is caged.
❋ Similarly, he wants to know how pupils who are confined to the four walls of a classroom filled with fear and facing oppression be expected to blossom and mature into useful adults.