Education: Guns, Babies, Bellybuttons

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength. . . .

—Psalm 8:2

Twenty-six kindergarten kids at New York City's P.S. 90 got off their views on war & peace to U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (who promised to ponder them). Teacher Alma Haring, who sent him the message; set it all down just the way they told her..Excerpts:

"War is fighting. People hate and take people's clothes away. They should think not to make a war. They shouldn't have guns.... Why don't they love one another and help everybody? And make...

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