Pendant un cours à l’université, le bébé d’une étudiante s’est mis à pleurer sans pouvoir se calmer. Pensant qu’elle dérangeait, la jeune mère s’est levée pour sortir de la salle.
Mais le professeur Sydney Engelberg s’est approché d’elle, a pris le bébé dans ses bras, l’a doucement apaisé… puis il a continué à donner son cours sans manquer une seule note, marchant dans la salle avec l’enfant contre lui.
Engelberg permet à ses étudiantes de venir en classe avec leurs enfants, et même d’allaiter pendant le cours.
Sa philosophie est simple, mais profondément humaine :
Aucune mère ne devrait avoir à choisir entre son éducation et son enfant.
Ce geste, capturé en photo, a rapidement fait le tour du monde. Il est devenu un symbole d’empathie, d’inclusion et d’humanité dans le monde universitaire.
Un simple moment…
mais une grande leçon de respect et de compassion.
#fblifestyle
Le monde littéraire
Lady Gaga condemns ICE in heartfelt speech at the MAYHEM Ball in Tokyo tonight:
"I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me. Something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now. In a couple of days, I'm gonna be heading home and my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families, all over America, who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE. I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us. I'm also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do. When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us. I hope that you'll all stand with us tonight. I know we're not in America right now, but we are with our community and we love you. I'd like to dedicate this song to everyone who is suffering, to everyone who's feeling alone and helpless, anyone who's lost a loved one and is it having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near. We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability. Good people shouldn't have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect and I hope, I hope our leaders are listening. I hope you're listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country. At a time where it doesn't feel like it's easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up. So, I would like to sing a song that does have some hope in it, to try to give us a little bit tonight."
It is an honor to know that my poem, “What Is Home?”, was selected for use in the entrance examination of Nada Junior High School, Japan’s highest-ranking junior high school.
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The poem is from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear