. While most educated individuals can agree that it is not wrong to use the diary for educational purposes, the argument of how they are teaching it tends to come up in conversation quite often. Students are being taught while reading that they can relate to Anne and the things that she is currently going through. Students tend to believe that they are facing some of the issues that Anne was forced to experience. Ultimately, leading to a false understanding of what people actually experienced throughout the Holocaust. While this is a very valid argument, many scholars argue this saying that putting a face to the victims of the tragedy can make for a better understanding of what actually happened. It becomes a personal illustration that statistics
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The argument is made that while the diary is very broad about the persecutions, but that is acceptable because it is not all right to feed students accounts of gruesome torture. There are not very many accounts written that are censored enough to read to younger students. To some educators, they feel that Anne’s story reaches the students without expressing all of the gruesome details that the Holocaust entails. Henri Van Praag, who is the author of “Diary as a Challenge to Education,” states this:
“Identification with Anne becomes possible because the reader of the diary feels a deep psychological kinship with her. It is often the case too that Anne arouses self-awareness in the reader, giving him the courage to be himself. Reading the diary often leads to a new discussion with parents and teachers.”
It is unnecessary to have to show terrible, horrific pictures of deceased bodies in the gas chambers of concentration camps. The diary assists children in understanding the truth of what she went through. In personal experiences, I have been a witness to classmates leaving the classroom close to …show more content…
The ending of the diary says nothing the fate of Anne or her family members. However, personal opinion, the diary should continue to be used as an illustration of the Holocaust, especially to younger students. It delivers a message to students that they can process and respond to. While receiving this reading, students should be shown the brutal, violent side of the Holocaust and not just Anne’s story. While students can, on a certain level, relate to Anne and her loneliness they should be exposed to the harsh torment that other not so fortunate Jews were forced to face.
Anne’s outlook on the entire situation is very relatable to that of Viktor Frankl. Frankl was a teacher and philosopher that survived the Holocaust and proceeded to write “Man’s Search for Meaning.” He states how instead of giving in and allowing the Nazi party to brainwash him, he kept his morale high and believed that God was putting him through this situation for a specific reason, and that was allowed him to survive throughout the many different death camps he was prisoner in, unlike some of the prisoners around him who gave up and accepted the fact that they were going to
The argument is made that while the diary is very broad about the persecutions, but that is acceptable because it is not all right to feed students accounts of gruesome torture. There are not very many accounts written that are censored enough to read to younger students. To some educators, they feel that Anne’s story reaches the students without expressing all of the gruesome details that the Holocaust entails. Henri Van Praag, who is the author of “Diary as a Challenge to Education,” states this:
“Identification with Anne becomes possible because the reader of the diary feels a deep psychological kinship with her. It is often the case too that Anne arouses self-awareness in the reader, giving him the courage to be himself. Reading the diary often leads to a new discussion with parents and teachers.”
It is unnecessary to have to show terrible, horrific pictures of deceased bodies in the gas chambers of concentration camps. The diary assists children in understanding the truth of what she went through. In personal experiences, I have been a witness to classmates leaving the classroom close to …show more content…
The ending of the diary says nothing the fate of Anne or her family members. However, personal opinion, the diary should continue to be used as an illustration of the Holocaust, especially to younger students. It delivers a message to students that they can process and respond to. While receiving this reading, students should be shown the brutal, violent side of the Holocaust and not just Anne’s story. While students can, on a certain level, relate to Anne and her loneliness they should be exposed to the harsh torment that other not so fortunate Jews were forced to face.
Anne’s outlook on the entire situation is very relatable to that of Viktor Frankl. Frankl was a teacher and philosopher that survived the Holocaust and proceeded to write “Man’s Search for Meaning.” He states how instead of giving in and allowing the Nazi party to brainwash him, he kept his morale high and believed that God was putting him through this situation for a specific reason, and that was allowed him to survive throughout the many different death camps he was prisoner in, unlike some of the prisoners around him who gave up and accepted the fact that they were going to