Holocaust Education Needs to be a Part of the Core Curriculum of Every College Student
I meet with college students all the time.
It’s my great pleasure and privilege to do so.
I love it.
But there is a whole world of people out there in need of an education.
Education to save lives.
To save us from repeating the atrocities of the past…
Over the course of many years I’ve shared an idea with every politician I’ve had the chance to meet. People like Deval Patrick and Eliot Engel.
But never publicly. Until now…
When we think of evil we think of ugly. Uneducated. Slobbering, lisping fools. Dark characters with diabolical laughs and weird eyebrow raised looks and gestures.
It doesn’t matter why we think that, but we do.
What we neglect to think about is that, during the Holocaust especially, the perpetrators were doctors, lawyers, accountants, videographers, intellectuals, politicians, and all types of “high society” folks you can imagine.
They were people we aspire to be.
But make no mistake, they were evil. They carried it out. They supported it. They aided it.
That brings me to the idea, the point –
It’s time that part of the core curriculum of every college student is a class on the Holocaust.
Yes, I would add a session or two about other atrocities and terrible things, but I think a major focus needs to be made to educate young people, no matter their religion, race, or cultural upbringing about the horrors, and details, of the Holocaust.
Because it can happen again. And it will come from the elite.
Not people with droopy eyes and spit oozing from their slobbering mouths.
Nope, the elite, that is where it will come from.
To stave it off, every college student in this country should learn about the Holocaust. In depth. Specifically.
It should be required. I think it has to be.
There are plenty of experts out there to make a powerful curriculum. Time to get them together and bring this to life.
If you are a professor or a politician and you see this, please help me make it happen. If you “know somebody” that can move this idea along please help. If you think it’s a good idea, like and share.