SILENT SAM AND UNC'S MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH PEACE

Many of the world's problems could be fixed if we, from the very beginning of the education process, stressed the importance (adequately equipping w/skills,) of LOOKING FOR WHAT'S RIGHT about any given task, lesson and "problem. Teaching to FIRST identify the positives (inherent in every matter,) and let that be the capstone for instilling a lasting paradigm in the minds of students.

Sadly, in every aspect of life, we learn to look for what's WRONG in any initial assessment. (for example, I recall my parents' tendency to first and sometimes only--comment on my report card grades that were Bs or Cs.)

So often, throughout the various aspects of life, like raising our children, at work or home, in sizing up others and choosing our mates/friends and determining our responses to pretty much everything --our first inclination is to make sure we have properly isolated what's wrong. We then make conclusions about our consequent course of action or reaction.

Currently, newsworthy info must detail reports of unfairness and a variety of tantrums and hurtful actions taken by angry people/mobs. The only possible products of such are fear and hated. Are there that many ignorant people who believe that violence, yelling, suing, etc. could in any way be effective for winning others over to their point of view?

No anger can be assuaged by returning the same emotion.

Logic reveals that being heard, being understood and being respected (whether by those with differentiating opinions or not,) must always begin with the establishment of a friendly environment, where dissenting opinions are allowed and do not provoke outrage and fury from either side.

Within every life disappointment (ie--not getting my way,) I've learned incredible lessons that have subsequently empowered me. And it's all about "turn the page." Just a transfer of focus from what's wrong (what seems to be offensive,) to what might actually (at least in part) have a capacity for being right.

In an across the board rudimentary effort grounded upon prioritizing THE POSITIVES as the most important component in every situation, it seems to me that we would affect a ubiquitous change.