A private school principal placed a copy of this letter in each teacher's
box one day.
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 burned 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 Eichmanns. Reading, writing, and arithmetic
are important only if they serve to make our children more humane.