Teaching Tolerance is looking to expand its corps of bloggers. Specifically, we’re looking for teachers who already blog and who want to reflect upon day-to-day classroom experiences. These teachers also need to be familiar with the mission of Teaching Tolerance: To promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond.
Does that sound like you or someone you know? If so, contact us at editor@TeachingTolerance.org. Be sure to include a brief biography. It should contain your name, contact information, where you teach, years of experience and a no-more-than-two-sentence explanation of how you got into blogging. Please also include a link to the blog for which you have written.
This information should be put into your email response and not made part of an attachment. Be sure to put “Teaching Tolerance blogger” in the subject line. Keep in mind that Teaching Tolerance pays $50 per published blog post. So this is a good way to voice your opinion on issues that matter and get paid for it.
Good luck. We’re looking forward to all the diverse and interesting responses.
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Must we limit ourselves to
Must we limit ourselves to teaching tolerance? I've always found the title idea of teaching tolerance to be somehow too tolerant of ignorance. All of the greatest leaders of people on this planet have taught something beyond tolerance- they've taught *love* for one another. Jesus, Ghandi, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., Mother Theresa- all have taught us to love one another and have led by example, giving their all for that one belief. To me, teaching tolerance teaches, "I'll put up with you, but I don't have to like it. In fact, I probably hate you for some ignorant reason, and that's ok with everyone." But it isn't ok. "Tolerance" is what we do on the highway every day. But on some days, we flip one another off, don't we? Sometimes, on the Internet, we say things to people that we would never say in public, and certainly would not want those comments associated with ourselves in the light of day.
Until we teach our society to VALUE other human beings, and that all people, cultures, religions, genders have something to offer that we desperately NEED from each other, we cannot hope for a better world. Tolerance just won't cut it anymore. Civility is at an all-time low worldwide. Whether it is the flip off on the highway, the raging screed on the Internet, or the terrorist with the bomb strapped to himself, ready to bring into action what happens when the cork comes off the bottle of Tolerance, we cannot hope for a better world. Teaching love is the only way.
I love the analogy of
I love the analogy of tolerance and the freeway. This was written with insight and honesty. I agree we must value each other and then we will learn how valuable we are to each other.
I, too, agree that mere
I, too, agree that mere "tolerance" just won't cut it if we are to really change the climate of intolerance and hatred of those who are viewed as "other." We need to teach that difference is a fact of our world and that difference is something can value, not just tolerate. As teachers, we have a great deal of power and influence and we must use it in ways that move children toward inclusion of and appreciation for all people, not just those who look, believe, and love as they do.