Vientiane International School

THE SCULPTORS

I dreamed I stood in a studio

And watched two sculptors there,

The clay they used was a young child’s mind

And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher, the tools he used

Were books and music and art,

One was a parent with a guiding hand

And a gentle loving heart.

Day after day the teacher toiled

With touch that was deft and sure,

While the parent laboured by his side

And polished and smoothed it o’er.

And when at last their task was done,

They were proud of what they had wrought,

For the things they had moulded into a child,

Could neither be sold nor bought.

And each agreed they would have failed

If they had worked alone,

For behind the parents stood the school,

And behind the teacher, the home.

(Anonymous)