Do you think that forgiveness is something that should be taught formally in schools?

What is the purpose of education?  Isn’t it to prepare children for adulthood?  We prepare children to read. We prepare children to balance a checkbook.  Why do we not prepare them for the injustices that likely will visit each child in adulthood?  Yes, I do think we need forgiveness education in schools so that, when the students grow into adulthood and experience cruelty, sometimes unexpected and deep cruelty, we will have equipped them with how to recover from that through forgiveness, if the person now chooses forgiveness as a free will decision.  Further, it would be important to teach the teamwork of forgiving and justice-seeking so that the child does not equate forgiving with giving in to the other’s unfairness.

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