MEMORIAL DAY
"The headmaster of an American high school survived the Holocaust each year he wrote to his teachers: Dear Professor,
am a survivor of a concentration camp.
My eyes have seen what no human being should never see:
gas chambers built by learned engineers;
children killed with poison by well-trained doctors;
infants killed by nurses tubes ;
women and children killed and burned by graduates of high schools and universities.
wary, therefore, education.
My request is: Help your students become human beings.
Your efforts must never produce educated monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated of Eichmann.
reading, writing, arithmetic are not important if they do not serve to make our children more human.
Our school should be a place where diversity and differences in the only goal that is shared is personal growth.
only way to understand what it means to a school that can deliver the cultural heritage that we comes from the past, to accompany the child and the boy in the discovery of meaning, and promote the ability to innovate and build the future that every single person.
I determined not to accept a school that pursues only the usefulness of the historical moment and the fleeting moment, giving up to help the student to be what it is and build in different contexts. "
Chiappelli David, Educational Director of the 9th Circle of Modena-January 27, 2007.
With Sandra per aver pubblicato questa lettera!
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