World Teachers’ Day
Year of first observance. Thousand teachers in the United Kingdom. 25.8 million primary school teachers will be required worldwide. World Teachers’ Day, held annually on October 5 since 1994, commemorates teacher organizations worldwide. Its aim is to mobilize...People Making a Difference: Peace Crane Project
Sue DiCicco, founder of Armed with the Arts, Inc. demonstrates how to create an origami crane for the Peace Crane...THE PEACE CRANE PROJECT
As a symbol of peace, an origami crane with a personal message is either given to a friend or left in a public place. This is the peace crane project—an initiative first spearheaded to celebrate the United Nations International Day of Peace. The project...Read more“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill”
– Barbara Tuchman
