Apathy

Mouths open and close with hippopotamus-like yawns as another day of school begins. Eyes are heavy with sleep: minds are dull with the thought of another day in school. When the mouths are not open yawning and sighing, they are moving incessantly chattering about last night’s television programs, the latest hits in pop music, or the latest sports spectaculars. The teacher enters the room and prepares to begin the lesson, but for all the jabber he remains for a time inaudible. He begins by...