Make Your Child Spend 10 Minutes Watching This
Excerpt: We set up a meeting days later where he introduced me to Zamir, a man who as an adult had escaped the communist regime of Albania and made it to the United States. His testimony so remarkable and powerful, it was an honor for me to have Zamir in my classroom each semester for the next several years. He impressed in a way that a textbook never could what it was like to be a 16-year-old in school when a government official handed out career assignments that the state had chosen for each young person. Though he had grown up in the city and never experienced life around animals, the Albanian communist party had decided he was to be a veterinarian. “Could you object or ask for a different assignment?” was a common question. And every semester, every time it was asked, his response was always the same. “If you knew someone in the party, you could make that request and survive. If you didn’t, you knew better than to ask.”
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