It was so good to see you and Renata and FODI and hear you present too.

Immediately following FODI I participated in the ISPCAN congress  in Melbourne  (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).  It has certainly been a very intense 10 days with so much to think about both  eye opening, provocative, challenging and some pathways for hope.

Our National Children's Commissioner made a cameo appearance at ISPCAN and while It wasn't happiness I felt when she said that children in Australia don't live according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, I was very pleased she said this out loud. But is that still only words?   Why is it that Philip Jaffe from the UNCRC contacted me before ISPCAN to ask me if we could meet when he was in Melbourne, but I still haven't had a reply from several different ways I've tried to contact  her and the previous Australian National Children's Commissioner? The first one was quite different. Megan Mitchell and I valued the opportunities I had to meet with her and what she did!.  I have met Philip Jaffe through my work in children's rights and my commitment to Janusz Korczak.and bringing his legacy alive here.

Peter, I would like to meet with you when it works for you. There are some things I would really like to discuss with you.   I respect you are a very busy person and I also want you to have more time with Renata and family and time to relax and just be, too.  I can be fairly flexible with times and dates.

Shavua Tov!

Karin Morrison

"One should not leave the world as it is."  Korczak, J.     And in Moshe Shner's words more recently, "Change it!"

Hi Karin,

Thanks for your email.  Next Sunday I'm leaving for a visit to the National University of Singapore.  I don't have time to meet before then.  If you want to meet in October, that should be possible.  But if you are hoping to involve me in your concern for the rights of children in Australia, I should let you know that my time is already fully committed to my work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good, and my attempts to reduce the suffering humans inflict on vast numbers of animals, so, important as the protection of the rights of Australian children is, I would have to say no to working for that cause.

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	Peter SingerThanks Peter.I understand that your time is fully committed to your work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good and my daughter and I are committed to that in different ways too. I was very appreciative that at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)  that unfortunately, but understandably  you were not available at that time, every person at ICOT received a copy of this important book and I did speak about it briefly also.  I so hope that has had beneficial consequences. I've been wanting to speak with you for a while about something I'm working on, and when I saw you would be at FODI I knew you would be back in Australia so would wait till then. It was bashert that you said what you did in The Cure session!  I'm putting together a new book about Education.    The session Bad Education at FODI resonated strongly with me as I expected it would also!   Education in Australia is in an appalling state and it doesn't surprise me that teachers here are leaving the profession in droves and more students are dropping out of school than ever before and tragically youth suicide too; in addition  youth violence is increasing at a frightening level, plus, plus, plus.  Constant release  on bail of multiple offenders  and punishment  aren't answers. Why is no one seeming to be trying to identify the problems? It was never like this here before, and until the causes are  recognised, and responded to where will this end?   My life has been committed to helping children and my parents knew this and  were very supportive.  When I was a teenager they didn't try to talk me out of it even though at Scopus the closest career advice came to my interests and passion was  paediatrics and family law. My father, z'l, a holocaust survivor, told me that being a teacher was a very important profession and I would be able to see my students grow through school and learn from them and other teachers too.  I'm no longer working in a school or education system. I learned the hard way that to stay I would need to compromise my values and I can help more children and educators from outside of systems and that's what I do. I've seen firsthand locally as a student, teacher, parent and now grandparent of very young children plus internationally how schools have changed, as has about everything else in the world and am not saying that changing education is the answer to today's problems, but education and families continue to be consistencies in the  lives of children from their very first breaths. My learning still continues and through my intention to do the best I could and continue to help children, I have learned much from many different people, including from you Peter. I value the several times I have seen and heard you speak, and books of yours I've read. Thank you very much. Ethics has been embedded in my classroom practice and I have participated in Ethics projects both locally and internationally.   I was always interested in children's thinking and fascinated in the different ways children made sense of the things they saw and heard around them and explored new things. This led me to going to ICOT decades ago now where I met many people who I respect highly and  for whom I have great admiration. This also led to me meeting David Perkins and Howard Gardner from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducationThere I met Reuven Feuerstein, I had never heard of him before and was fascinated with what he said  and the examples he gave of  working with children who had suffered traumatic experiences and also children diagnosed as disabled. I continued learning from him for many years and helped introduce more teachers in Australia to learn more about his important work. In those days he led the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential. In his honour, now the Feuerstein Institute continues this work. I also met David Perkins at ICOT and initiated a collaboration at Bialik with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducatIon . I'll stop hetre. I feel uncomfortable talking about the many wonderful opportunities I have had meeting withandwould be happy to meet with you in October.		Peter Singer	Thanks Peter.I understand that your time is fully committed to your work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good and my daughter and I are committed to that in different ways too. I was very appreciative that at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)  that unfortunately, but understandably  you were not available at that time, every person at ICOT received a copy of this important book and I did speak about it briefly also.  I so hope that has had beneficial consequences. I've been wanting to speak with you for a while about something I'm working on, and when I saw you would be at FODI I knew you would be back in Australia so would wait till then. It was bashert that you said what you did in The Cure session!  I'm putting together a new book about Education.    The session Bad Education at FODI resonated strongly with me as I expected it would also!   Education in Australia is in an appalling state and it doesn't surprise me that teachers here are leaving the profession in droves and more students are dropping out of school than ever before and tragically youth suicide too; in addition  youth violence is increasing at a frightening level, plus, plus, plus.  Constant release  on bail of multiple offenders  and punishment  aren't answers. Why is no one seeming to be trying to identify the problems? It was never like this here before, and until the causes are  recognised, and responded to where will this end?   My life has been committed to helping children and my parents knew this and  were very supportive.  When I was a teenager they didn't try to talk me out of it even though at Scopus the closest career advice came to my interests and passion was  paediatrics and family law. My father, z'l, a holocaust survivor, told me that being a teacher was a very important profession and I would be able to see my students grow through school and learn from them and other teachers too.  I'm no longer working in a school or education system. I learned the hard way that to stay I would need to compromise my values and I can help more children and educators from outside of systems and that's what I do. I've seen firsthand locally as a student, teacher, parent and now grandparent of very young children plus internationally how schools have changed, as has about everything else in the world and am not saying that changing education is the answer to today's problems, but education and families continue to be consistencies in the  lives of children from their very first breaths. My learning still continues and through my intention to do the best I could and continue to help children, I have learned much from many different people, including from you Peter. I value the several times I have seen and heard you speak, and books of yours I've read. Thank you very much. Ethics has been embedded in my classroom practice and I have participated in Ethics projects both locally and internationally.   I was always interested in children's thinking and fascinated in the different ways children made sense of the things they saw and heard around them and explored new things. This led me to going to ICOT decades ago now where I met many people who I respect highly and  for whom I have great admiration. This also led to me meeting David Perkins and Howard Gardner from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducationThere I met Reuven Feuerstein, I had never heard of him before and was fascinated with what he said  and the examples he gave of  working with children who had suffered traumatic experiences and also children diagnosed as disabled. I continued learning from him for many years and helped introduce more teachers in Australia to learn more about his important work. In those days he led the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential. In his honour, now the Feuerstein Institute continues this work. I also met David Perkins at ICOT and initiated a collaboration at Bialik with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducatIon . I'll stop hetre. I feel uncomfortable talking about the many wonderful opportunities I have had meeting withandwould be happy to meet with you in October.	Thanks Peter.I understand that your time is fully committed to your work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good and my daughter and I are committed to that in different ways too. I was very appreciative that at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)  that unfortunately, but understandably  you were not available at that time, every person at ICOT received a copy of this important book and I did speak about it briefly also.  I so hope that has had beneficial consequences. I've been wanting to speak with you for a while about something I'm working on, and when I saw you would be at FODI I knew you would be back in Australia so would wait till then. It was bashert that you said what you did in The Cure session!  I'm putting together a new book about Education.    The session Bad Education at FODI resonated strongly with me as I expected it would also!   Education in Australia is in an appalling state and it doesn't surprise me that teachers here are leaving the profession in droves and more students are dropping out of school than ever before and tragically youth suicide too; in addition  youth violence is increasing at a frightening level, plus, plus, plus.  Constant release  on bail of multiple offenders  and punishment  aren't answers. Why is no one seeming to be trying to identify the problems? It was never like this here before, and until the causes are  recognised, and responded to where will this end?   My life has been committed to helping children and my parents knew this and  were very supportive.  When I was a teenager they didn't try to talk me out of it even though at Scopus the closest career advice came to my interests and passion was  paediatrics and family law. My father, z'l, a holocaust survivor, told me that being a teacher was a very important profession and I would be able to see my students grow through school and learn from them and other teachers too.  I'm no longer working in a school or education system. I learned the hard way that to stay I would need to compromise my values and I can help more children and educators from outside of systems and that's what I do. I've seen firsthand locally as a student, teacher, parent and now grandparent of very young children plus internationally how schools have changed, as has about everything else in the world and am not saying that changing education is the answer to today's problems, but education and families continue to be consistencies in the  lives of children from their very first breaths. My learning still continues and through my intention to do the best I could and continue to help children, I have learned much from many different people, including from you Peter. I value the several times I have seen and heard you speak, and books of yours I've read. Thank you very much. Ethics has been embedded in my classroom practice and I have participated in Ethics projects both locally and internationally.   I was always interested in children's thinking and fascinated in the different ways children made sense of the things they saw and heard around them and explored new things. This led me to going to ICOT decades ago now where I met many people who I respect highly and  for whom I have great admiration. This also led to me meeting David Perkins and Howard Gardner from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducationThere I met Reuven Feuerstein, I had never heard of him before and was fascinated with what he said  and the examples he gave of  working with children who had suffered traumatic experiences and also children diagnosed as disabled. I continued learning from him for many years and helped introduce more teachers in Australia to learn more about his important work. In those days he led the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential. In his honour, now the Feuerstein Institute continues this work. I also met David Perkins at ICOT and initiated a collaboration at Bialik with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducatIon . I'll stop hetre. I feel uncomfortable talking about the many wonderful opportunities I have had meeting withandwould be happy to meet with you in October.
	Peter Singer
Thanks Peter.I understand that your time is fully committed to your work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good and my daughter and I are committed to that in different ways too. I was very appreciative that at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)  that unfortunately, but understandably  you were not available at that time, every person at ICOT received a copy of this important book and I did speak about it briefly also.  I so hope that has had beneficial consequences. I've been wanting to speak with you for a while about something I'm working on, and when I saw you would be at FODI I knew you would be back in Australia so would wait till then. It was bashert that you said what you did in The Cure session!  I'm putting together a new book about Education.    The session Bad Education at FODI resonated strongly with me as I expected it would also!   Education in Australia is in an appalling state and it doesn't surprise me that teachers here are leaving the profession in droves and more students are dropping out of school than ever before and tragically youth suicide too; in addition  youth violence is increasing at a frightening level, plus, plus, plus.  Constant release  on bail of multiple offenders  and punishment  aren't answers. Why is no one seeming to be trying to identify the problems? It was never like this here before, and until the causes are  recognised, and responded to where will this end?   My life has been committed to helping children and my parents knew this and  were very supportive.  When I was a teenager they didn't try to talk me out of it even though at Scopus the closest career advice came to my interests and passion was  paediatrics and family law. My father, z'l, a holocaust survivor, told me that being a teacher was a very important profession and I would be able to see my students grow through school and learn from them and other teachers too.  I'm no longer working in a school or education system. I learned the hard way that to stay I would need to compromise my values and I can help more children and educators from outside of systems and that's what I do. I've seen firsthand locally as a student, teacher, parent and now grandparent of very young children plus internationally how schools have changed, as has about everything else in the world and am not saying that changing education is the answer to today's problems, but education and families continue to be consistencies in the  lives of children from their very first breaths. My learning still continues and through my intention to do the best I could and continue to help children, I have learned much from many different people, including from you Peter. I value the several times I have seen and heard you speak, and books of yours I've read. Thank you very much. Ethics has been embedded in my classroom practice and I have participated in Ethics projects both locally and internationally.   I was always interested in children's thinking and fascinated in the different ways children made sense of the things they saw and heard around them and explored new things. This led me to going to ICOT decades ago now where I met many people who I respect highly and  for whom I have great admiration. This also led to me meeting David Perkins and Howard Gardner from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducationThere I met Reuven Feuerstein, I had never heard of him before and was fascinated with what he said  and the examples he gave of  working with children who had suffered traumatic experiences and also children diagnosed as disabled. I continued learning from him for many years and helped introduce more teachers in Australia to learn more about his important work. In those days he led the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential. In his honour, now the Feuerstein Institute continues this work. I also met David Perkins at ICOT and initiated a collaboration at Bialik with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducatIon . I'll stop hetre. I feel uncomfortable talking about the many wonderful opportunities I have had meeting withandwould be happy to meet with you in October.	Thanks Peter.I understand that your time is fully committed to your work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good and my daughter and I are committed to that in different ways too. I was very appreciative that at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)  that unfortunately, but understandably  you were not available at that time, every person at ICOT received a copy of this important book and I did speak about it briefly also.  I so hope that has had beneficial consequences. I've been wanting to speak with you for a while about something I'm working on, and when I saw you would be at FODI I knew you would be back in Australia so would wait till then. It was bashert that you said what you did in The Cure session!  I'm putting together a new book about Education.    The session Bad Education at FODI resonated strongly with me as I expected it would also!   Education in Australia is in an appalling state and it doesn't surprise me that teachers here are leaving the profession in droves and more students are dropping out of school than ever before and tragically youth suicide too; in addition  youth violence is increasing at a frightening level, plus, plus, plus.  Constant release  on bail of multiple offenders  and punishment  aren't answers. Why is no one seeming to be trying to identify the problems? It was never like this here before, and until the causes are  recognised, and responded to where will this end?   My life has been committed to helping children and my parents knew this and  were very supportive.  When I was a teenager they didn't try to talk me out of it even though at Scopus the closest career advice came to my interests and passion was  paediatrics and family law. My father, z'l, a holocaust survivor, told me that being a teacher was a very important profession and I would be able to see my students grow through school and learn from them and other teachers too.  I'm no longer working in a school or education system. I learned the hard way that to stay I would need to compromise my values and I can help more children and educators from outside of systems and that's what I do. I've seen firsthand locally as a student, teacher, parent and now grandparent of very young children plus internationally how schools have changed, as has about everything else in the world and am not saying that changing education is the answer to today's problems, but education and families continue to be consistencies in the  lives of children from their very first breaths. My learning still continues and through my intention to do the best I could and continue to help children, I have learned much from many different people, including from you Peter. I value the several times I have seen and heard you speak, and books of yours I've read. Thank you very much. Ethics has been embedded in my classroom practice and I have participated in Ethics projects both locally and internationally.   I was always interested in children's thinking and fascinated in the different ways children made sense of the things they saw and heard around them and explored new things. This led me to going to ICOT decades ago now where I met many people who I respect highly and  for whom I have great admiration. This also led to me meeting David Perkins and Howard Gardner from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducationThere I met Reuven Feuerstein, I had never heard of him before and was fascinated with what he said  and the examples he gave of  working with children who had suffered traumatic experiences and also children diagnosed as disabled. I continued learning from him for many years and helped introduce more teachers in Australia to learn more about his important work. In those days he led the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential. In his honour, now the Feuerstein Institute continues this work. I also met David Perkins at ICOT and initiated a collaboration at Bialik with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducatIon . I'll stop hetre. I feel uncomfortable talking about the many wonderful opportunities I have had meeting withandwould be happy to meet with you in October.
Thanks Peter.I understand that your time is fully committed to your work for The Life You Can Save, Profit for Good and my daughter and I are committed to that in different ways too. I was very appreciative that at the International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)  that unfortunately, but understandably  you were not available at that time, every person at ICOT received a copy of this important book and I did speak about it briefly also.  I so hope that has had beneficial consequences. I've been wanting to speak with you for a while about something I'm working on, and when I saw you would be at FODI I knew you would be back in Australia so would wait till then. It was bashert that you said what you did in The Cure session!  I'm putting together a new book about Education.    The session Bad Education at FODI resonated strongly with me as I expected it would also!   Education in Australia is in an appalling state and it doesn't surprise me that teachers here are leaving the profession in droves and more students are dropping out of school than ever before and tragically youth suicide too; in addition  youth violence is increasing at a frightening level, plus, plus, plus.  Constant release  on bail of multiple offenders  and punishment  aren't answers. Why is no one seeming to be trying to identify the problems? It was never like this here before, and until the causes are  recognised, and responded to where will this end?   My life has been committed to helping children and my parents knew this and  were very supportive.  When I was a teenager they didn't try to talk me out of it even though at Scopus the closest career advice came to my interests and passion was  paediatrics and family law. My father, z'l, a holocaust survivor, told me that being a teacher was a very important profession and I would be able to see my students grow through school and learn from them and other teachers too.  I'm no longer working in a school or education system. I learned the hard way that to stay I would need to compromise my values and I can help more children and educators from outside of systems and that's what I do. I've seen firsthand locally as a student, teacher, parent and now grandparent of very young children plus internationally how schools have changed, as has about everything else in the world and am not saying that changing education is the answer to today's problems, but education and families continue to be consistencies in the  lives of children from their very first breaths. My learning still continues and through my intention to do the best I could and continue to help children, I have learned much from many different people, including from you Peter. I value the several times I have seen and heard you speak, and books of yours I've read. Thank you very much. Ethics has been embedded in my classroom practice and I have participated in Ethics projects both locally and internationally.   I was always interested in children's thinking and fascinated in the different ways children made sense of the things they saw and heard around them and explored new things. This led me to going to ICOT decades ago now where I met many people who I respect highly and  for whom I have great admiration. This also led to me meeting David Perkins and Howard Gardner from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducationThere I met Reuven Feuerstein, I had never heard of him before and was fascinated with what he said  and the examples he gave of  working with children who had suffered traumatic experiences and also children diagnosed as disabled. I continued learning from him for many years and helped introduce more teachers in Australia to learn more about his important work. In those days he led the International Centre for the Enhancement of Learning Potential. In his honour, now the Feuerstein Institute continues this work. I also met David Perkins at ICOT and initiated a collaboration at Bialik with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of EducatIon . I'll stop hetre. I feel uncomfortable talking about the many wonderful opportunities I have had meeting withandwould be happy to meet with you in October.

Last updated 4 September 2026