Character Education / February

Suggested components:

Brotherhood: Working for Peace

Diversity: Contagious Humanity

Diversity: I'm Unique and Unrepeatable!

Tolerance in Our Global Village

Quotes for the month:

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions...perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far." Henry David Thoreau

"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue. It makes it a requirement for survival."
Rene Dubos

"To thine own self be true." Shakespeare

"Each individual person has been created to love and be loved--Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Christian--doesn't matter race--doesn't matter religion." Mother Teresa

" 'Diversity' comes from the Latin root 'diverse: to turn in different directions.' " "I have fought all my life against prejudice and intolerance." Harry Truman

"You can't judge a book by its cover." Unknown

"Though each flake is very different, there is one point you should know: As the snowflakes reach the earth below, they become one in a great blanket of snow." Unknown