SC should teach the Holocaust, and teach everything better

Certainly, the Holocaust, a signal event in modern history, should be kept in the South Carolina school curriculum. If anything, its studies should be expanded.

I observed, first hand, the horrors inflicted on the thousands of victims at Buchenwald Concentration Camp outside of Weimar, Germany. I wrote a three-page typewritten letter to my parents the day following my visit there. The letter is dated May 21, 1945, and recounts the process of reducing emaciated humans to ashes in six specially constructed ovens, and other information gleaned from some of the survivors. The original letter and pictures are available to scholars and others visiting the Holocaust Museum Archives in Washington.

This country should take note of the education process in some other nations, where kindergarten is mandatory and third-graders speak three languages. Case in point: The best hotels in India assign butlers to guests from our country. All must have a master’s degree.