Each a Teacher

No person is your enemy, no person is your friend, every person is your teacher. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Out of the mouths of babes...
what have you learned
from a child?
Not my kind, my tribe,
my class? What has he taught you?
Did her maturity, her understanding,
her insight grab your heart
and your head?
I grew up with a prejudice,
believing education was essential,
disdaining those who stopped
long before they reached
an acceptable level
and when their knowledge,
their insight, exceeded my expectations...
and my abilities, there should have been
error messages, DOES NOT COMPUTE!
ERROR. NOT FOUND. BAD GATEWAY.
SERVER ERROR.
How could they know that?
Because every person
is my teacher!