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 high
school and college graduates
So, I am suspicious of education.
My request is that teachers help students
become human.
Your efforts must never produce learned
monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated
Eichmans.
Reading, writing, arithmetic are important
only if they serve to make our children more human.
From: Haim Ginott (1972). Teacher and Child
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