Can one TEACH personal relations?

I believe not. A teacher/parent should firstly LIVE as an example, and secondly DISCUSS such relations with children in a reasoned, empathetic way.

Being a teacher and having grown up in “apartheid” South Africa, I had to change my own mind-set radically when my kids started asking questions. My eldest son’s best friend is of another race. Does it matter?

Some of my most trusted and valued colleagues are of a different race. Does it matter?

We respect cultural differences. But these occur even within one race. Aren’t white Americans different from white Germans?

Johan Viljoen

Pretoria

South Africa