The Principal
“ ‘Intangible’ word he did say,
“More, ‘organismic’ is the way,
Not ‘bricks and mortar’ which you see,
But quiet-like-intuitively.“You see there's things called money trees,
Where people work, like you and me,
A task they do quite faithfully –
They steward cash quite carefully.“They must with other players work
So quickly filter out the jerk
For, what they do, and what they see,
Has levels of complexity.“I've heard confusion in your words
What you are seeing seems absurd
So let me show you simply
What's going on transaction’ly:“It's like transformer that I am
I change that money, if I can,
Into a person getting on
With life in world’s big billabong.“All else that's done is optional –
If bricks and mortar, that's our call;
There's texts; and structures called ‘the rules’ –
A thousand things that make up schools.“Our name means nothing really;
Location’s ‘possibility’;
The teachers are whoever works
From excellent to first-class jerks.“The mixes of those factors are
Quite arbitrary – sail and spar;
If you can get from A to B.
They'll fund your bark quite readily.“We offer courses eight to folk
Because eight jobs remain – no joke –
‘I'll help you with your choice my friend
So inns and outs you'll comprehend.’“It's not like University
Where clutch goes in, lets students be
Those types of each philosophy
In place far from community.“That process is for leaders soon
Who need to take the afternoon
To try on concepts, feel their fit,
Without the damage part of it.“Those folks go forward into life
Much better fitted for the strife
As flex they can add each new place
When change takes place in human race.“But our stuff's not ethereal
It’s concrete, fixed, and practical –
As bones and body make for shape
And structured movement – steps can take.“We can't all flex our way through life,
'Twould be like using rubber knife;
Don't look down on straightforward folk
Or make them but of daily joke.“These folks make daily life go on,
And do it each with private song;
They rise each morning, eight hours spend,
Then home to outside life again.“Day in, day out, with water, wood,
They hew and carry – understood
To be quite valuable when stopped
By strikes and lockouts – then not mocked.“So get this straight, our task's to help
These folks plug in without a yelp.
If we can do that handily
They'll fund our work financially.“So they do look discerningly
On us, yes, operation’ly,
Much more, ask, ‘Do we get them there?’
Regardless how are op’s compare.“Not rocket science is our task
Quite simple it, now that you ask,
Bucks set aside must be transformed
To well-trained workers – tasks performed.“We find out what is needed then
Train people – to that workplace send –
If excess folks live round about
We help some take the urban route.“So dance it is – like poesy –
We do our task organically;
Then folks can work contentedly
As grounded economically.“We are the joints which movement lets
The rigid bones have needed flex;
We need to stay adaptable –
Thus we their lives make possible.“We lubricate the working world
Which globally gets tossed and swirled;
We try to help folks find a place
To competently spend their days.“So what I build's ‘transforming’ tool;
You see outside, call it a school,
But underneath what matters is –
Folks competently placed in the biz.“Yes, this which I most like to do –
To daily change, stay flexible,
Responsive to fast-needed tasks –
Large schools, they handle needs more vast.“That is my niche, like sailing skiff
Which skims the harbor, locale fits;
The larger boats move much more freight,
But changing course much longer takes.“An expediter’s half-ton yields
It's quick results in oilfields;
It cannot derrick move at all,
But bigger truck's – not quick when called.“So, bricks and mortar, Internet,
Such tools we use, if we select;
But underneath’s where action is
A dance – that's what small tech-school is.”navigation