What Would Happen if Schools Taught Kindness? What would education look like if its purpose were not to create a workforce, but whole human beings? Parker Palmer Andy Smallman is a teacher who wrote his master’s thesis on “trying to empower children to take charge of their education.” He believed that allowing them to […]
Revolutionary Love in Response to Hatred This may be the world’s only hope for peace: that all of us, brothers and sisters and strangers alike, understand we meet as guests together in ‘God’s own tent.’ – Sister Marilyn Lacey – Balbir Singh Sodhi was the first person killed in the wave of thousands of acts of hatred that followed the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. The […]
Let’s Help Our Children To Be Kind Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. Leo Tolstoy The most important thing we need to do for our children and grandchildren is to provide a place where they feel safe and loved. Everything else we do is to help create that experience for them. Our job is to support […]
The Pause that Refreshes When we pause, allow a gap and breathe deeply, we can experience instant refreshment. … Pema Chödrön As we walk our kindness path, most days go smoothly, as we easily engage people with a pleasant comment, and they usually respond in kind. Some days, however, lead us to more challenging […]
