On the first day of the new school year, all the teachers in one private school received the following note from their principal.:
Dear Teacher,
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness.
Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses.Women and babies shot and burned by college and high school graduates. So, I am suspicious of education.
My request is help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated eichmanns.
Reading, writing, arithmetic (3R's) are important only if they serve to make our children more humane.
source: Stories from Here and There, Ekalavya Education Foundation - By: Sunil Handa - http://www.eklavya.org/storyhere.html
Dear Teacher,
Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses.Women and babies shot and burned by college and high school graduates. So, I am suspicious of education.
My request is help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated eichmanns.
Reading, writing, arithmetic (3R's) are important only if they serve to make our children more humane.
source: Stories from Here and There, Ekalavya Education Foundation - By: Sunil Handa - http://www.eklavya.org/storyhere.html
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