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Eva Schloss (Anne Frank's step-sister and survivor of the holocaust)
visited Roxbourne in November 1992, she helped us put into focus what
education is about in the free world. In her talk to us she quoted
Pablo Casals, the world famous cellist. We reproduce this quotation
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Sometimes I
look about me with a feeling of complete dismay. In the confusion
that afflicts the world today, I see a disrespect for the very values
of life. Beauty is all around us, but how many are blind to it! They
look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing.
Each second we live is a new and unique moment
of the universe, a moment that will never be again ... And what
do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four
and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them: Do you know what
you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that
have passed there has never been another child like you. And look
at your body - what a wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your clever
fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare a Michelangelo,
a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes you are a marvel.
And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you,
a marvel? You must cherish one another. You must work - we must
all work - to make this world worthy of its children.
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PABLO
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