[etni] korczak - quote of the week
- From: "avi tsur" <tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 06:04:02 +0000
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Dear friends
I welcome you all to meet with me at the ETAI International Conference. I
will have a limited number of posters for sale (10 shekel per poster) and
the set of Korzcak books theat the Association has cut to less than half
price. Anyone interested can place there order with me. This very special
gesture of the association will not be continued after the conference. (You
may wish to inform your school library). C U all soon!!
Avi
"The lives of great men are like legends - difficult, but beautiful," he
wrote in the Pasteur book, which he intended as the first in a series of
mini-biographies whose subjects would include Pestalozzi, Leonardo da Vinci,
Pilsudski, Fabre, Ruskin, Mendel, Waclaw Nalkowski, and Jan Dawid. (It was a
project similar in spirit to the one his father and uncle had undertaken
seventy years before.)
Korczak clearly identified with Pasteur, "whose beautiful life was spent in
the struggle for truth," and whose attitude toward children was so much like
his own. "When I approach a child, I have two feelings - affection for what
he is today, and respect for what he can become," Pasteur had written. He
taught the world many of the same things that Korczak taught his children:
to wash their hands, drink boiled water, open the windows to let in good
fresh air. He dared to say "I don't know" while doing his experiments, and
never gave up, even when he was the most discouraged.
Korczak dedicated the Pasteur book to his sister, Anna Lui, but he told
friends that he had written it for children living in a time when the
"Hitler madness" had seized power over everything decent. He wanted them to
know there were people in the world who devoted their lives to enriching the
human condition.
Lifton, B. J, (1988). The King of Children, St Martin's Press, New York
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