[etni] korczak quote of the week
- From: "avi tsur" <tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:54:54 +0000
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to all the bereaved families, friends and "beit yisrael"
He had to be firm, to hide the sorrow he felt for the children who had
nowhere to go and those he knew would not survive. Yet he was impressed by
how "dignified, mature, and sensible a child could be when face to face with
death." He was to place the right of the child to die at the top of his
Magna Carta of Children´s Rights. No matter how much a mother loved her
child, she had to allow him the right to premature death. it was possible,
he wrote that a child had a destiny other than being his mother´s child.
"The naturalist knows that not every seed produces an ear of corn, not every
chick is born fit to live, not every sapling grows into a tree."
Little Hospital ~ Janusz Korczak Biography
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