Monday, January 27, 2025

The Smith Family, January 27, 2025


 

Would a sweet Jewish Momma do like Menachem Begin?


 

Haim Ginott and a concentration camp survivor's letter

 Israeli educational psychologist Haim Ginott writes about a letter that teachers would receive from their principal each year:


I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates.


So, I am suspicious of education.


My request is this: Help your children become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths or educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.




The Smith Family, January 27, 2025