Abundance comes not from stuff. In fact, stuff is an indication of non-abundance. Abundance is in the sacred; it's in the connection of love. We will find abundance through hard times when we find each other.
~ Rebecca Adamson
Holocaust Memorial Day - January 27th
A letter sent by the head of a large high school in Boston to new teachers in her school:
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: help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.
(quoted by Richard Pring in his inaugural lecture as Professor of Education Studies at Oxford, 1991)
The National Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration honours the memory of the victims of the Holocaust - 6 million Jews as well as over 5 million other victims - persecuted because of their nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious or political affiliations. The inclusion of all of the victims groups is essential to the commemoration, highlighting the importance of education about anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance. Click here for more information about this year's Memorial Day and for resources for teachers.