Enrichment Direction:

Activities 1. Read this letter given by a private school principal to her teachers on
the first day of a new school year. It may make your humanizing mission
in teaching crystal clear.

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 were 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, and Eichmann’s.
Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important only if they

serve to make our children more human.

2. Give your reflection on the letter above then explain your mission as
a professional teacher by helping children become more human.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world,” as Nelson Mandela said. But this powerful weapon may
change someone else in his sanity mind that can harm an individual or
can be general. And these people do it because of depressions, fear,
curiosity, and nevertheless money. Because so much knowledge has
been invented or produced, people have also had the opportunity to
use it for useless things and unaccepted doings.

To learn something unthinkingly will cause danger to you, to someone

else, or for all. And these people are lack knowledge of the true
purpose of education. And no matter how educated you are if your
personality is also crooked, you are worse than the beast.

My goal as a professional teacher is to assist students in becoming

more human by assisting them in teaching humanity. Before plunging
into learning, asking children how they are doing, speaking with them
after school, joking with them, and listening to what they have to say.
Those are the things we can teach our children about humankind.

Teaching is about how we treat children rather than who we are to

them. Empathetic adults make us human. There is no guilt in
acknowledging or sharing our humanity with the youngsters. Perhaps
true humanity will blossom in our world if we can help our children
learn to turn their random acts of kindness into intentional acts of
kindness.