Last Post

So here is my last practicum 1 post.

I got a package from the TDSB Professional Library with resource materials on how to teach Maus.

And in it, there was a note entitled: Rationale for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

It reads:

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 suspicios of education.

My request is: Help you students become more human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns.

Reading, and writing, and arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more humane.

                                          Haim Ginott

That same day, a student came up to me and personally thanked me for sharing the story of my grandparents with her.

So I guess despite how uncomfortable this has been for me, it's been ok.


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