This is a letter sent by a head teacher to his new teachers
Dear Teachers,
I'm 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 and infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and burnt by high school and college graduates. So I'm suspicious of education.
My request is: help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important, but only if they serve to make children more human.
Pring, 1984
