Saturday, March 14, 2009

Promoting Peace Once School, One Child at a Time - ASCD Conference

First: Encouraging words from Young Educator Award winners:
"All children learn... just not in the same way, and not at the same rate"

Greg Mortenson

To students: "How many of you have spoken to your grandparents about the depression, civil rights, Vietnam, WW2." In USA - 10% In India - 90%

Video - "Pennies for Peace" - Building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan - "We have to build relationships..."

"The real enemy is ignorance..."

If you educate a boy, you educate an individual... If you educate a girl, you educate a community. - African Proverb

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