QUOTES
are
we doing enough to help our children create a more peaceful world?
Peace
is not an ideal, which is how we presently treat it. Peace is a discipline, a
practice, a muscle that has to be strengthened or else it goes weak. Presently,
we have no formal practice of peace because peace has been excluded from our global
educational curriculum.
our
children are viscerally aware of the heightened violence on this planet. It has
permeated every aspect of their lives. They are hungry to make a difference, desperate
to affect their reality in a positive way, but they are unsure of how to do it.
What is the solution?
To make peace a class, in every school, at every grade level, in classrooms all
over the world so our children can learn the 'art' of getting along, which isn't
easy, reflected by the current state of the world
Tolerance,
respect and patience are acquired skills, they are learned attributes, practiced
choices, and until our children begin to study, learn and practice peace, I believe
this is as good as it gets.
What
is truly more important, how our children do on standardized tests or what kind
of human beings they are and will become? I believe it is our obligation, as mothers,
to get peace into our classrooms so our children can study, learn and practice
peace. Then, and only then, can we rest assured they will fulfill their divine
destinies as peacemakers and the world will become a more peaceful place.
