Here is a letter that was found at the end of World War II in a Nazi death camp that is worth reading twice:
What is Education?
Dear teachers,
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness. Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and burn by high school and college graduates. So, I am suspicious of education. My request is: Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated illiterates. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve towards making our children more humane.
It is not the need for affiliation.
That need is from your brain, to socialize, to interrelate. It is not the need for sexual release either. That is physical. It is to love with your heart, to ache with your heart to be united with someone whom you feel as one. It is spiritual.
We are trying to solve our life problems with our brains, analyzing cost benefit ratios. The real, sustainable solution is processed by the heart, where we feel.
The brain interferes with our need to love or be loved; it has to process all other needs. One of them is fear, which is related to the need to survive. Another is to achieve, and some of us are so busy with our careers that we have no time to feel and love another.
Calm the brain. Think less and let your heart manifest the love it naturally has. Relationships based on love survive.
We will continue with keeping the relationships alive by ‘communicating effectively’, key to lasting relationships with love, trust and respect.
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