About Education....

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.

This letter was written by Dr. Haim Ginott.  It was a memo to teachers before the first day of school on the critical importance of values based education.  It is well worth reading, re-reading and then passing on to all the people whom we know.