Wednesday, February 26, 2014

As mentioned yesterday, I'm headed to Dallas this morning for APHE's National Conference.
I am excited to get inspired about humane education!
I love the Institute for Humane Education's definition: 
"Humane education is a lens, body of knowledge, and set of tools and strategies for teaching about human rights, animal protection, environmental stewardship, and cultural issues as interconnected and internal dimensions of a just, healthy society. 
Humane education not only instills the desire and capacity to live with compassion, integrity, and wisdom, but also provides the knowledge and tools to put our values into action in meaningful, far-reaching ways so that we can find solutions that work for all."
Here's a video of Zoe Weil, the founder of the Institute for Humane Education:

And this is another inspiring video-

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