Our other choices speak specifically to September 11, 2001, the largest terrorist attack in U.S. New York's Bravest looks back to nineteenth-century hero, Mose Humphrey, and the founding of New York firefighters. In September we feature not a single hero, but, exemplars of heroic responsibility in action. In a time of danger, they are rushing in to help as others are rushing out. But there are men and women, our nation's first responders, who, as part of their jobs and vocations, risk their lives for others. Seldom is one's "responsibility" raised to the level of heroism. In September we remind children that "responsibility is doing our part for the groups that make us whole." Classroom responsibilities range from simple housekeeping chores to facilitate learning to consistently doing one's homework. In September, as Core Virtues schools focus on “respect and responsibility,” we hope you’ll celebrate this woman who throughout her career exemplified respect for our natural world and care in its stewardship. Carson’s work educates, instills a sense of wonder, and actually led to banning of DDT as pesticide.
Discover Magazine named Silent Spring one of the 25 greatest science books of all time. Her most famous book, Silent Spring, published in 1962 helped launch the environmental movement, and is widely regarded as one of the best volumes of non-fiction published in the twentieth century. Her lifelong interest in preserving natural wonders made her one of the first environmentalists. In the 1960s, she began to write on the dangers of new chemical pesticides (DDT) being sprayed without regard to the delicate ecosystems they damaged. Her three volumes Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1950), and At the Edge of the Sea (1953) were histories of the ocean and its sea life. What better heroine for September than that chronicler of the sea, Rachel Carson! She exemplifies respect for our environment and responsibility toward the world in which we live.Ĭarson’s childhood love of the sea and all of nature led her to a fruitful career in marine biology and gave our country a poetic and prolific writer on natural history and a champion for the environment. In September, when students begin their studies, they are often torn between “back to school” excitement and the lure of fading summer joys.
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