"Teaching kindness isn't enough" by Bret Turner (2019) (http://bit.ly/3lAHJsu)

"Young children are not only developing a sense of morality; they are developing a sense of who they are. This includes their race, gender, class and more. These identities have never been treated or represented equally in our society, so when we teach about love, acceptance and kindness without addressing this inequity, we gloss over crucial differences in the ways our students experience the world. The harm done by long-term exposure to injustice—to the kind of imagery found in racist books, microaggressions and discrimination—calls for more than a simple understanding of kindness. It demands that kindness be interwoven with substantial notions of true justice."

References:

Bret Turner (https://twitter.com/bretjturner)

Learning for Justice (https://www.learningforjustice.org)

Michael Harriot Twitter thread (https://bit.ly/3f65APw)

Michael Harriot (https://twitter.com/michaelharriot)

The Zinn Education Project (https://www.zinnedproject.org)

"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn (http://bit.ly/3lzXQGS)

Michael Lipset, PhD of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/)

Connect:

Twitter (https://twitter.com/mjcraw)

Website (https://www.mjcraw.com)

Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)