Should vandals be forced to learn about Robert Frost as punishment?

Some vandals thrashed Robert Frost’s former home in a beer party.

I understand the spirit behind using “Road not Taken” as a framework for challenging criminals to seize opportunities for critical choices, but are they more responsive than, say, a class full of speeding driving school students? It’s a multiple day class, so hopefully after a couple of sessions it will start to sink in with at least one student.

The Haiku
What good are poems?
Can they change a life or not?
Bitter irony

Editor’s Note: Can the Associated Press throw in any more puns to their human interest stories?

An additional note – Did you see that C.S. Lewis and Lawrence Lessig are listed as podcasts for changing the world by iTunes U? Pretty cool. (And they also listed off a new favorite class of mine, Future of the Internet. I feel intellectual all over.)

Semi-related posts:

  1. Robert Girard – Obituary
  2. Robert C. Girard Books
  3. The Robert C. Girard Project
  4. Our University, Hallowed Halls of Changing Criteria
  5. Wi-Fi Scam

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