We Have No Right To Forget! Teacher Andras Zita – Emese Secondary School Teliu, Brașov The principles of a society are internalized at the level of the individual through values. Values are passed down from generation to generation. The natural question is: What values do we transmit? Let's not transmit "values" that promote the wrong ways and means to win, let's not teach young people hatred, chauvinism, but let's teach them respect for life. Let's teach them to have empathy. Empathy helps you not to be afraid of other people, even if they speak another language, have different habits, dress differently. Empathy helps you understand that each person has a lot in common with you, that we all have families, we love them, we are afraid of certain things, and that in fact “we are genetically programmed to care for each other, to help each other. But it's up to you to take the first step!”81 The role in the behavior of a child is played by the parents, the school cannot make up for the absence of a solid education. The University of Minnesota study considers that not only the low level of empathy, but the lack or weak control over impulses and emotions, so the education received, internalized values lead or not to cruelty as happened in World War II. The "values" promoted by Hitlerjugend through Nazi propaganda led to the disaster of killing 6 million Jews. Activities in Nazi schools were based on physical and ideological training; it included, among other things, racist indoctrination, learning to differentiate the human races, and so on. Young people were inflamed by wrong ideas, the information received was distorted and the lack of cultural contact formed some wrong ideas in their souls and minds. After the Second World War, mankind realized the need for legislation to ensure respect for human rights, thus was born the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on December 10, 1948, during the third session of the UN General Assembly. Later, the European Court of Human Rights or as it is known, the ECHR, is established in Europe. It is the guarantor of compliance with the regulations set out in the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols. The "Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" is a document prepared by the Council of Europe, which includes fundamental rights and freedoms, and was signed on November 4, 1950 in Rome. Most of the rights contained in the convention are civil and political rights. It entered into force on 3 September 1953. “The Convention has been ratified by almost all the member states of the Council of Europe, it is one of the newest constructions of the international institutional system. The Convention and its Additional Protocols protect several
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