MC: Compassion, Action, And Change

Marie Cowhey warns us while teaching:

• not to reinforce stereotypes (example of feeding the poor)
• not to oversimplify complex problems and their solutions
• we shouldn't fail to teach for understanding about the underlying causes of problems and to see the local efforts to improve things
• not to further stigmatize people with the problem who may be in the school community

Reminds me of the Ralph Nader documentary - he describes the scene at the breakfast table and his father reading the paper - he would see a problem and give homework - by dinner they had to come back tot he table with a solution...

They collected and volunteered not out of pity, but out of understanding and empathy - learned to transform their compassion into action...