A lot of teachers groan when it comes time to decorate the classroom because it seems like such a low return on the time and effort invested. But putting up positive messages in your classroom can do a lot more than improve the color scheme. You can include messages encouraging diversity, tolerance, acceptance and making your classroom a safe space. Making your classroom comfortable and accepting as a physical space can help students who are struggling in their personal lives, especially students who have become victims of bullying.
When major events fill people with emotions, like the way that the result of a presidential election can , it can make the classroom a very emotionally-charged place. If not, you can always begin by checking out the resources available through Teaching Tolerance. As you can see, creating an inclusive classroom begins in a place of perspective and intention.
As you begin to implement these ideas, you will probably come up with many more specific ways to tailor your classroom. But if you could use some inspiration more activity-based ideas, check out: " 5 Multicultural Activities for Preschoolers to Help Teach the Importance of Diversity.
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Please visit www. External links provided on rasmussen. At every level of society, familial, tribal, national and international, the key to a happier and more peaceful and successful world is the growth of compassion. WHAT is tolerance? We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly--that is the first law of nature. Many of our problems are created by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, resources, economic status or other factors.
The time has come to think on a deeper, more human level and appreciate and respect our sameness as human beings. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls. No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. How many paths are there to God?
There are as many paths to God as there are souls on the Earth. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it then no politician or even a magician can save the planet. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion.
We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it's humiliating. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal.
It respects the other and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people. B Dubois , African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, John Brown, Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. I believe in God who made of one blood all races that dwell on earth.
I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development. I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. It is my inmost conviction, Badshah Khan said, that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat — selfless service, faith, and love.
I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and villages throughout the country. It meant feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, caring for the young, but it also meant healing the wounded and forgiving the unforgivable. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
Freedom of judgment must necessarily be permitted and people must be governed in such a way that they can live in harmony, even though they openly hold different and contradictory opinions. There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human. To deny any person their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal. From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.
They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness … the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
I have no animosity towards anyone. Whoever displays human dignity, regardless of their religion or faith, I bow my head before them and hold them dear.
It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet. The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. People start to take opposing viewpoints personally, as a personal attack. This has manifested in a nasty way in current politics, especially in Europe and the United States.
And that has resulted in people promoting a toxic fabric of opposing views in offensive ways. Just look at the last American elections, or the election debates in Europe. If you are a person of directive destiny and individual accountability, you should have thought this through to the point where you make a choice.
This mix of cultural factors is one thing that drives people to black and white thinking. And with a lack of constructive engagement people do very little refining of their thinking. Instead they entrench themselves on one side of an argument based on stereotypes of the opposition. As opposing sides exchange fire, it drives wedges deeper between different groups. Ironically, the very tolerance we were pursuing becomes hard to find. Our international director Marco Blankenburgh was talking to a man from the Gallup Foundation a few weeks ago, and he lifted the veil a bit on the report they are going to publish in October.
One of the things that came out there is that employee engagement across the world is dropping. To embrace a creative tension that leads to a healthier fabric in society and healthier solutions. The opposing forces are not going away any time soon. Our ability to manage polarities is becoming more and more important - especially the ability to do it in a way where we still respect each other and do our best to leverage the beauty in opposing views.
We need to rediscover what it means to harness tolerance and make sure it is promoted when it needs to be - but also learn when to allow and promote healthy debate and healthy opposing views, and to store respect and shake hands with those who might have a totally different opinion than we do.
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