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Writing contest from the five countries.
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This was an activity made during the first year. Students from the different countries participated and wrote about tolerance. Their words are beautiful!
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Twenty-two people participated. Here you have only three. The others will always be at our school. We decided to organize a competition. It was an Essay Competition ‘Let’s Move Around Tolerance’ as part of the activities of this European Programme for Education of Adults entitled: ‘A tolerant world with the help of digital Competence in the teaching of adults’. All students enrolled in the CEAD could take place. The topic of the essays was ‘Tolerance’. Participants commented on a sentence, quotation, picture, personal experience or historical event related to Tolerance. The essay had to be written in two languages: in the official language of the country (in our case, Spanish) and in English or French.
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These are the three texts that might win the European contest:
Let's move around tolerance
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Tolerance is respect for the rights and freedom of every human being and not a monopoly of some people from some countries.
Humans shouldn’t have to fight for their rights and for equality, because people should have those rights from birth
A child learns from their parents. Our children are the future of our society. You cannot ask children to be tolerant if we do not give example. We must teach them to call others by their names and not mock them whoever they are, because if they mock them, they can cause much suffering.
Children should learn to love everyone, regardless of the colour of their skin color, their traits, and religion. They should learn to respect their culture and traditions. They should learn to share.
A child should play with everyone else and shouldn’t let anyone out.
My father told us at an early age that all people are equal whoever they are.
Francisco Cabrera (Secondary Adult Education)
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Let’s move around tolerance.
To be tolerance means to have respect to other people. Each one has freedom to do what we like with their own life without be judged o criticized by others. Nobody is allowed to criticize other people because each one is different. There are lots of races, cultures, colours o sexual tendencies so…who said that our point of view is the universal? Who said that it is unique and valid? Why we criticize what is different to us? It is said that the more information and culture people have the more tolerant they are. Then, why are more intolerant people in the most important countries than in the least ones?
I think that all is a result of our insecurities. We are close to unknowing things and to all that is out of our control. We may try to open our heart and be more open-minded too and perhaps we could have a lot of news experiences, grateful sensations and opportunities to know wonderful people.
In this world there is a humanity expecting to be accepted and that is the same we are hoping every day. We place ourselves in the place where other people are, and try to accept them the way they are but specially we must accept ourselves.
Elena Cruz.
First year Leaving Certificate
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Some years ago, I thought to be a missionary in an African country, as I didn’t like the world around me, but the circumstances of my life made me change my mind.
Later, I met a tai-chi teacher and he said to me some words that made me think “to change the world, we must begin by changing yourself”. I asked him: How can I change a person? He answered:
“Acquire knowledge expands the mind, this help you to change, and if you change, your around will change too”. Then I decided to study. Suddenly, I found a fantastic world that had always surrounded me but I had not realized it .
Listening to my teachers have became my favorite hobby. And I have discovered the connection between hunger and a mathematics formula.
I have always been afraid of nurses taking my blood , however once I found myself talking to the nurse and looking the syringe blood being filled and I understood that I was making myself strong inside, and I didn’t know as it had occurred, then I thought “the world’s misery gives you strength if you look it with love, no with disgust or revulsion.
Until now the most important thing that I have learned is that if you are tolerant with yourself, you will be tolerant with others unlike.
But the story continues…
"Studying will help you to expand the mind and help you to be more tolerant”.
Nieves del Pino Álvarez
First Year Leaving Certificate
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(IN)TOLERANCE?
Tolerance is such a disputed term that it may seem almost imposible to formulate an original opinion about it’s meanings. However this concept and it’s opposite concept –intolerance- have such a wide spectrum of notions which can define them, that I believe that another opinion regarding tolerance vs. intolerance may be accepted among the thousands of pages written in order to clarify the on and off going dispute: which point can the tolerance reach and when does the intolerance begin?
As you all probably heard or read tolerance is a notion which covers all social strata, all social circumstances, beginning from different opinions and going to serious subjects such as religion, sex, race. Tolerance has become such a common subject that I believe that it’s deep meanings have been lost somewhere around this long journey of its theorization. As a great cultural personality from Romania, Andrei Plesu, sustained in his book “Tolerance and intolerable - The crisis of a concept”, nowadays tolerance doesn’t refer to accepting “the different”( as it should) but it’s representing the amiable ignorance of “the different”. I would add to this statement that this situation leads to a silent treatment in order not to be considered intolerant. The modern society is trying to infuse the term tolerance, we know that we should be tolerant but we are missing the point, tolerance is becoming an empty word for those who are not aware of what tolerance involves. The real tolerance should result from dialogues between persons with different ideas, from debates regarding subjects that may bring different beliefs because the truth doesn’t only have one side. Not agreeing with one’s opinion doesn’t make you intolerant but aggressively refusing to hear other ideas makes you that way.
We face situations which involve our tolerant/ intolerant reactions in front of what’s different even from our early years and I believe that the way we are thought to behave then( either to understand and tolerate, either to misunderstand and judge) reflects later on our personality. So, tolerance may be a result of education, but there is still the question: why are many educated people intolerant? I didn’t decided to one answer to that question, perhaps education is only a part of what tolerance represents, perhaps tolerance has a lot to do with our personality too or perhaps tolerance comes from the accepting of yourself first in order to be able to accept the others.
When we think of tolerance we certainly should take notice of the great impacts it had had over the humanity during the history (in most of the cases I refer to the lack of tolerance). So, the lack of tolerance was several times the source of many “black pages” in history such as the Holocaust, the Inquisition, slavery, wars, etc. The lack of tolerance represents a violation of the human rights because in the second article of The Universal Declaration of The Human Rights it is mentioned that: “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.”( art. 2)
Besides these aspects of tolerance/ intolerance there is another aspect that I find quite interesting: to capacity of tolerating one’s errors. It is a strange fact that us, humans, have the tendency to be tolerant only with the persons we know, with friends or family, we are capable to accept them mistakes which in other people’s cases we find inacceptable. If something could be tolerated at some people why aren’t we able to tolerate it at all people? If we can forgive and forget a friend’s mistake why do we judge the same mistake made by another person? Probably because when there are feelings involved the reason is put on the second place or probably because of the instinct to protect what we love.
I know that tolerance it’s a necesity, a positive way of thinking and acting because we all are unique persons with different ideas ( diversity is the beauty of the world), it’s what makes us humans but I wonder if the tolerance may have negative aspects. So, are there cases in which we musn’t be tolerant? I believe that one of the most important cases in which tolerance may be seen as a mistake is the breaking of the law. We can tolerate small mistakes, ussually mistakes that all of us do but i think that any mistake which represent a violation of the law can’t be tolerated. For example traffic laws, if an officer tolerates a driver who has made a mistake while driving ( such as overcoming speed regulations), that driver will probably repeat his mistake puting in danger not only his life but also the life of other traffic participants. This is the big risk of tolerating the mistakes: they might be repeated.I believe that another thing we shouldn’t tolerate is our own bad habits.
Regarding to what I’ve tried to illustrate in this essay there is one very important fact that I want to emphasize: when we think of tolerance and it’s importance we should ask ourselves what should we tolerate, how should we tolerate it and when is intolerance a helpful situation? I wasn’t trying to demonstrate under any circumstance that intolerance is a good thing or that tolerance is a bad one, on the contrary, but I only wanted to reveal the fact that it is a very thin line between them and as humans it is our duty to put in balance the positive and the negative aspects of a situation in order to make the right decision. So be tolerant with ”the different” and be intolerant with ”the bad”!
MAGA LIVIA-MARIA
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TOLERANCE
Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the richness and diversity of our world's cultures, our kinds of speech and manners of expressing our quality human beings. She is encouraged by knowledge, openness of spirit, communication and freedom of thought, conscience and belief.
Tolerance is harmony in difference. It is not only a moral duty, it is also, and a political and legal requirement. Tolerance is a virtue that makes peace possible, contributes to the replacement of the culture war by a culture of peace. In accordance with human rights, the practice of tolerance does not mean toleration of social injustice, or to renounce their beliefs or to make concessions in this regard. It means accepting that human beings are naturally characterized by the diversity of their appearance, by their situation, the way of expression, the values and behaviors, have the right to live in peace and to be those that are.
It also means that nobody should impose their own views of others.
In the modern world, tolerance is more essential than ever. We live in an age marked by the globalization of economy and rapidly increasing mobility, communication, integration and interdependence, large-scale migrations and displacement of populations, urbanization and forms mutations in the sphere of social organization.
The tolerance is necessary both beetwen people and also in the family and community. Promoting the tolerance and the education of attitude towards different opinions in the sense of a mutual understanding and of solidarity is going to take place in schools and university and throughout non-formal education at home and work.
Me citizen of Earth, I pleed for a society of tolerance,because it represents understanding and intolerance doesn’t lead to nothing good. This represents the main reasons for rasism,rasial discrimination and antisemetism. Finally, we still realise that we need tolerance at any time. To be welthy, to be better we need it. So, me citizen of Europe and of Earth I try hardly reject any other rasial discrimination, of antisemetism and xenofoby. I try hardly to be tolerant,because I know that it is foundation, which will became a building, a new society a tolerant one.
I believe that you are conviced and that we need tolerance, especially in the society , where all are bad,where all are envious,and they think how do hurt somebody else. I think that we should be more tolerant and to have a better way of thinking, to try,to understand,what somebody wants to say and to obtain.
As usually in a civilised world, a key-word, not only policaly, but also economicaly and socialy is tolerance. But I have a question here. To support tolerance means to accept all kinds of beliefs? For example – rasism,intolerance I think not.
I believe that we can refer to tolerance us a neassety of people to colaborate,to work togheter,in order to obtaine their target. Exactly this involve tolerance – the need to accept the ideas the convingions of other’s – the efect being much better than in a world where some people are against the convingtions of other’s. But, let’s not pass from extreme to another. To be tolerant doesn’t mean, to accept any idea,which can be against our
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principels. I can respect and understand for example the apartence to other religious view or of other kind , but this fact doesn’t mean that I should accept, only for being tolerant. Even if I have defferent values and principels,because I am tolerant I understand to respect individual differences.
The tolerance can br proved also in other way; to admit that I was wrong or that justice isn’t an our side; can be a profe of tolerance. Not always our views are the most valuable and other’s should be accepted,if they are better. Our opinion can be misunderstand, but if we are tolerant ,we can rieach to a consensus.
They are different concepts which characterize the tolerance,the first and the most important should be the respect theat we live in a continuous diversity and we should respect each choice of freedom. Just in this way we can solidarize one for the others. Another concept could be responsibility which makes posibil the social dialog in rezonable terms. Only responsable people are capable to be tolerant.
Beeing tolerant could be defined as a an act of volutude of everyone. It shouldn’t exist preconceptions in what tolerance is concerned , but only inderstanding, a pozitive attitude,an ordonated, constructive, system of thinking, accepting to all nivels, optimism and not lastly liberty in what you say and think. Every once convintions should’t be obstacle for tolerance, but on contrary to reflecte one person abbility to be open minded to everythink is inovative to listen to other’s convinctions without pretending preconceptions but finally there is possibility to compare two ayatems of different values , to be tolerant with somethink that isn’t part of our morality zone.
At the moment we become tolerant, at the same time we become capabile to observe the differences between different opinions, evaluate them and then choose the best way for our principels. To established already the arguments help us to understand the notion of tolerance.
Education in the sense of beeing tolerant must be promoted rationale and systemate methodes of teaching tolerance which adresse to the cultural sources, sociale,economical, political and religious of intolerance, sources which constitude precisly fundamental cusez of violence and puting side by the society.
Education in what tolerance is concerned is a preoccupated by avoiting influences which lead to fare and other’s exclude and it must help young ones to devalup there abbilitys to have own viwes to have critical think and to judge in ethical terms.
With all educabile domains the education of tolerance to is one of extrem importance if not primordial one.
„It means not accepting of "other", different opinion, but simply ignoring the (friendly) different opinion, the suspension of difference as difference. It follows that: 1. I understand you need to accept you, and 2. I need to talk to you to give your right. In other words, I agree with what you do not understand and are, in principle, agree with what you do not agree. You have a right to your opinion. A respect. I am entitled to my opinion and I expect it to be respected me.”(Andrei Plesu)
LAVINIA LASCU (University Student)
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TOLERANCE
’What does tolerance mean? The humanity’s atribute’ , said Voltaire. It is truly a simple definition, but meaningful because tolerance means respect, accepting and appreciating the wealth and the diversity of our cultures, of our way of expressing the quality of human beings. It is encouraged by knowledge, opened spirit, communication and the freedom of thinking, consciousness and faith. Tolerance is the harmony between the differences. It is a virtue that makes peace be possible and contributes to the substitution of the war culture with a peace culture. This virtue must be applied by each human being, human groups and countries.
Tolerance signifies the responsability that sustains the human rights, the pluralism, the democracy, and the state of law. It involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism, and validates the rules expressed in the international instruments regarding the human rights. According to the compliance of human rights, practicing tolerance means neither accepting the social injustice, nor throwing away your own belief. It also signifies that no one should require their personal openions to the others.
In the modern world, tolerance is more necessary than ever. We live in a era marked by economical globalisation and mobility speed, communication, integration and independence, migrations and transfers in the forms of social organization domain.
Tolerance is necessary between individuals as well as it is in the comunity and in the family frame. We all should plead for a society of tolerance, because tolerance means understanding and intolerance leads to nothing good but selfishness, which is the source of all the bad things in the world. After all, we realise that we need tolerance at each step of the way. To become better individuals we need tolerance, to gain friendship and happiness we need, again, tolerance. We need
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it as much as we need the oxygen. Tolerance is a sacred foundation stone, which tends to become a building – a new society, a tolerant society.
Nowadays, in the civilized world, one of the often used waves – not only in the political aspect, but also in the economical and social aspect – is tolerance. But here comes a question: Truly supporting tolerance means accepting all kinds of beliefs ? For example the racism and intolerance. I think not! I believe tolerance isn’t appliable for all the actions. We are tolerant towards faith, thinking and the diversity of beliefs and languages. But in the places where religions or the languages come to action, a civilized society has the right to regulate the conduct and to use the legislation for the public patrimony protection. Violence must not be ignored as well as people are not allowed to behave as they desire when their actions can hurt others. However, people can’t be stopped from exercising their rights.
The global society fights for tolerance. In the big fights along the years for a free society, the humanists pleaded intensely for tolerance, for the free thinking and for the necessity of having free ethics.
Tolerance means giving value to the person, giving him autonomy and freedom to take his own decisions. A tolerant society will be more creative and innovative because it’s opened to new discoveries and new psychological penetrations, improving the human experience. A tolerant society is more suitable for promoting the mutual trust and collaboration. In this way we will have less cruelty and scam, less dogmatism and fanatism.
After all being said, the tolerance principle contributes to the common wealth and to the building of a more human society, a general principle which the person is ready to follow in his life.
ELENA PALEU (University Student)
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TOLERANCE-WAY TO LIVING DIFFERENCES
“The path that leads each of us to the other-the-near-new, all that remains for other-than-us, is dotted with many misunderstandings, failures, suffering, even to threats that the other is our fellow man- and unknown the stranger by excellence, whose existence serenity selfish ego: from now on, he at least can no longer claim that the problems difficult relationship with the Other, irreducible to itself, there do not look at him.”
Thus, given that the fetus, from the beginning we have the right to manifest freely, we affirm their own identity, different and customized to choose what, who, when, where and why to do something to keep in mind sometimes without even remotely. The least that can annoy, hurt or worse, denigrate someone, the idea of tolerance is one more than “welcome”. Our law is unwritten, which made us think twice before doing so, we gave parts to create a climate of tolerance, ie a space devoid of hatred and desire for confrontation, fostering a culture of dialogue in a spirit of mutual respect and understanding of diversity needs of the individual who competes in the fullness of humanity as a whole:”By default the best social system which enables the highest distinction of individuals, claiming them as individuals and personalities, and individuals who appreciate, its members, in different ways, providing them with opportunities for individuals who appreciate, its members, in different ways, providing them with opportunities for self-capacities and the extent of their efforts.”
This is the meaning of the idea of tolerance expressed by the definition of UNESCO(1995): “Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being a human being. (…) It is promoted understanding, openness, communication and freedom of thought, conscience and belief. It is not only a moral duty, is also a political and legal requirement(…) ”.
But what is tolerance anyway?
Tolerance is the soul of man to accept the realities of the honorable way around it, something, somehow or other are not our expectations.
Tell acceptance “respectably” to think that tolerance is not acceptance of reality can be called under duress. Tolerance refers to internally accept the realities that we do not say so agree. In essence, tolerance is that man’s capacity to waive his desires, accepting the context in which it is, because the things around him to carry out normal and optimal for all or a certain situation. Routledge, author of the article on tolerance, the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, underlined that: “Tolerance is part of a healthy society, both within the meaning of social progress and development as prerequisite individuality.”
We must recognize, however, that many things turn out exactly the opposite. Some see tolerance as a sign of weakness. You accept others, their shortcomings or defects, or some adverse situations to us, is the point of view of some evidence of helplessness or feelings of insecurity. They are non-malleable
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in dialogue with others and understanding with others: “They are so full of ideas, that there is no place for others” , says La Bruière.
Knowing and being able to accept difficult situations and people is the strength of character, safety and, most importantly, the ability to be sympathetic with others, is ultimately a noble soul. The idea of tolerance is a pretty broad field, so I am sticking to highlight them in some aspects, more eloquent.
First we humans need to recognize and acknowledge that none of us are perfect, all have drawbacks, either larger or smaller, more visible or less visible.
In this context, it is essential spirit of tolerance. Acceptance infirmities of others and their acceptance of their infirmities, as stated in the book and Sorin-Tudor Maxim Tolerance. The right to difference: “Live and let others to live” ,because all of us have physical impairments, or do part of a different ethnicity, we are poor, elderly, or have a serious incurable disease. It’s painful to see how all the real reasons they use as they invoke when we want someone new to the distance. I am totally wrong and baseless such attitudes, because those who reject the other, forgetting their own faults and, moreover, forget that any defect is replaced with a quality that others do not.
Others dismiss the count question as evidence of “power” of forbearance, of manhood, an attitude which must respect others. But on the contrary, such behavior demonstrates a lack of responsibility, because a man with a sense of responsibility in this gesture aimed at a wide diversity in overall them, not just himself, just as a good physician does not consider a patient with a serious illness lost cause. A man who can understand that a “unity in diversity”. Tolerance is important and difficult situations we face, when some things do not happen as we expected or even worse when, nine were brought to us some harm.
Being tolerant does not mean however that we must accept and leave the place of good and evil. “In all things the measure is better”, says Homer in the Odyssey(15.17). thus, the sense of giving up is not a sign of tolerance, but rather a tendency to cowardice, nor forgiveness as a serious fact is not evidence of tolerance, but rather a of compassion. Sorin-Tudor Maxim clearly expresses what is said above: “Among the various degrees of the same events, the sense of measure will choose the middle and not excess: between recklessness and cowardice, courage is preferred;(…) spirit that we need to reconcile. That something to tell us and help us to choose between being tolerant or intolerant one”.
Therefore, we must understand and remember that the tolerant attitude thus expressed the conviction gained by culture, that humanity deserves to have a common future in the difference, the only future worth hoping for that you must act. Only tolerance is able to harmonize conflicting points of view, rising to a principle of unconditional respect for the Other, to regain its universality substance thus apparently accepting a plurality .
IUSTINA APETREI ( University Student)
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Hungarian compositions
Hungarian sculptures made by adult students on the theme of tolerance
As an art school, we found it more exciting not searching, but making sculptures
expressing tolerance-intolerance. Please find our best works below
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09/25/12 - Rosángeles Pereyra
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