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From: SuCamBar at aol.com <SuCamBar>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:14:39 EDT
In a message dated 4/27/06 2:13:24 PM, ep at elizabethpartridge.com writes:
> If we can get kids
> to bring their own strong reactions to the Holocaust, we're doing a great
> job.
>
>
I have been following this discussion with great fascination. I second Betsy's request that we think globally about genocide. The issues that have led and continue to lead to genocide--rascism, bullying, sterotyping, intellectual superiority/arrogance, cultural superiority/arrogance, to name a few--are issues that we must continue to fight and confront.
And we must think locally about these issues, too. I often mull over Lewis Hyde's definition of "genocide" as a killing of the genius--as well as the genus--since daily instances of schoolyard bullying do indeed kill the genius/spirit of the victim.
And, as Betsy says, it's important to get kids to bring about their own opinions, reactions. We want young readers to become capable meaning-makers. We don't want them to wait for others--their teachers, their peers, or even their books and the media--to editorialize, to tell them what to think, how to feel. We want them to question and think critically about their education and institutions.. (More hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than rebellion.) We want them to formulate their own opinions, to decide for themselves, to think for themselves--as Maya Angelou once said on Oprah, "That my de-ah, is called reading--and to stand up. And we want to give them the courage and the resources to do these things-- so that they can make a difference locally and globally.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Received on Thu 27 Apr 2006 02:14:39 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:14:39 EDT
In a message dated 4/27/06 2:13:24 PM, ep at elizabethpartridge.com writes:
> If we can get kids
> to bring their own strong reactions to the Holocaust, we're doing a great
> job.
>
>
I have been following this discussion with great fascination. I second Betsy's request that we think globally about genocide. The issues that have led and continue to lead to genocide--rascism, bullying, sterotyping, intellectual superiority/arrogance, cultural superiority/arrogance, to name a few--are issues that we must continue to fight and confront.
And we must think locally about these issues, too. I often mull over Lewis Hyde's definition of "genocide" as a killing of the genius--as well as the genus--since daily instances of schoolyard bullying do indeed kill the genius/spirit of the victim.
And, as Betsy says, it's important to get kids to bring about their own opinions, reactions. We want young readers to become capable meaning-makers. We don't want them to wait for others--their teachers, their peers, or even their books and the media--to editorialize, to tell them what to think, how to feel. We want them to question and think critically about their education and institutions.. (More hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than rebellion.) We want them to formulate their own opinions, to decide for themselves, to think for themselves--as Maya Angelou once said on Oprah, "That my de-ah, is called reading--and to stand up. And we want to give them the courage and the resources to do these things-- so that they can make a difference locally and globally.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Received on Thu 27 Apr 2006 02:14:39 PM CDT
