#132 / Lesson Plan

As I read my five newspapers every morning, and consider the articles with which I am presented, the lyrics of a Rodgers and Hammerstein song from South Pacific quite often come to mind. Here is the lesson that is being suggested by so many of these articles:

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught. 

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade,
You've got to be carefully taught. 

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught.

Do we really have to be taught like that?

I think the answer is clear.

Hatred and fear

(You heard it right here)

Is a  terrible lesson plan.

Image Credit:

http://www.csuniv.edu/news/carefully-taught.html