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Indifference
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"We Care." We are
committed to the well
being of each of our
residents. A first...
Apartment living in a
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Cambodia where Pol Pot kill-
ed over two million people
between 1975 and 1979. How
could the world tolerate these
actions after the Jewish Holo-
caust? Did we forget so soon?
It's essential that we never
forget. As long as indifference
is a human characteristic, the
Holocaust will always apply
to any society. Education is
the only weapon against
indifference.
The power of salvation has
always been inside of man.
The Christian philosopher
Origen once said, "By nature,
man is neither good nor evil.
He has both possibilities. The
power of choosing between
good and evil is within the
reach of all." If man can con-
vert his indifference to
respect for all races and
cultures, then the world
would become "perfect" in a
sense. I feel that the
Holocaust was not an insult
to Jews, but to all who sat still
watching the event take
place.
Alexander Donat, a sur-
vivor of the Warsaw ghetto
sums it up best by saying:
"To insist upon making the
world uncomfortable with the
memory of its guilt is a
necessity for that moral
reconstruction which may
alone prevent a repetition of
our Holocaust."
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• If Americans could vote
on the courses high schools
offer, there would be some
wholesale changes, and none
too soon.
High schools should
prepare our kids for college,
and The World, rather than
fulfill some abstract notion
of what every student should
know. So I wouldn't mind
substituting higher math for
a course on how to balance a
checkbook.
My daughter, Talia, a 10th-
grader and voracious reader,
says she'd keep English and
history courses about the
same, make math more
practical and offer courses
on how people could get
along better.
The high school of my
choice would have you
memorize fewer dates (1066,
1492, 1620) while teaching
you how to fix your car and
buy the best cuts of meat at
the butcher's.
I'd make everyone learn
how to type, operate a corn-
puter and calculator, and
spend at least an hour a day
thinking.
One puzzler I'd pose is
what measurement is used
in determining hat sizes. To
wit, if I wear a six-and-seven-
eighths, what is it? Six-and-
seven-eighths what? It's not
inches because my neck size
is 15-and-a-half inches and
my head is bigger than my
neck.
And while you're figuring
that out, how do those mea-
surements correspond to a
nine-and-a-half shoe?
Nine-and-a-half what?
One thing for certain.
None of these numbers has
anything to do with 3.14,
also known as pi.
We all learned about pi in
school and know that it has
something to do with circles
and circumferences and-
diameters. But what good is
that knowledge in Real Life?
Do you ever play the lottery
Practical grads
will know not
only how and
what to order in
restaurants, but
just how much to
tip the waiter.
and say, "I'll play pi," or
have dinner out and say, "I
think I'll tip the waiter four
times pi."
Graduates of The Practical
High School will know not
only how and what to order
in restaurants, but just how
much to tip the waiter.
• One practical bit of ad-
vice, for high schoolers and
others, is never try to figure
the media's fascination with
Yassir Arafat.
This week's Newsweek
(May 4) offers an exclusive
interview with the PLO
leader and suggests that the
recent plane crash, which
killed his three-man crew,
"is the best thing that has
happened to Arafat so fai
this year."
And you thought you wer
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