We Need to Stop Teaching...

June 13, 2016

Education is incredibly important,
whether it be at home or in an institution.  But there is one thing we
need to STOP teaching.  And Oscar Hammerstein II eloquently lyricized it
back in the 1940s:

"You've got to be taught

To hate and fear,

You've got to be taught

From year to year,

It's got to be drummed

In your dear little ear

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid

Of people whose eyes are oddly made,

And people whose skin is a diff'rent
shade,

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too
late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people your relatives
hate,

You've got to be carefully taught!"

Yet we're still being taught the lessons
of hatred.  "They" are not like us.  Their skin is a
different color. Their sexual orientation does not fit "our norm."  Their religion is not ours.  They speak a different
language.  

We are all different; we are all the same.  That's what we need to be carefully taught.

Hate is not okay.  Violence is not
okay.  It's time that we were taught THAT lesson.