Keith Pentz
@menno1954.bsky.social
Early childhood education specialist—particular interest in infant and toddler development, Christian Anarchist, follower of Jesus, Mennonite, attempting to live a life of peace and love
"A child who plays and works thoroughly, with perseverance, until physical fatigue forbids will surely be a thorough, determined person, capable of self-sacrifice.”
Friedrich Froebel
Friedrich Froebel
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"A child who plays and works thoroughly, with perseverance, until physical fatigue forbids will surely be a thorough, determined person, capable of self-sacrifice.”
Friedrich Froebel
Friedrich Froebel
“Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.”
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction.”
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin
“In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form…all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.”
Lev S. Vygotsky
Lev S. Vygotsky
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form…all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.”
Lev S. Vygotsky
Lev S. Vygotsky
“Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequality, the suppression of dissent and the permanent war state.”
Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequality, the suppression of dissent and the permanent war state.”
Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux
“We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.”
Menno Simons
Menno Simons
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.”
Menno Simons
Menno Simons
“This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.”
attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero
attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.”
attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero
attributed to Archbishop Oscar Romero
Today is the 45th anniversary of the rape, torture and murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador by members of the El Salvador National Guard, as well as the subsequent attempts by the government to cover up the story.
Watch the documentary Roses in December…the insanity continues
Watch the documentary Roses in December…the insanity continues
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Today is the 45th anniversary of the rape, torture and murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador by members of the El Salvador National Guard, as well as the subsequent attempts by the government to cover up the story.
Watch the documentary Roses in December…the insanity continues
Watch the documentary Roses in December…the insanity continues
Several times I decided to leave
El Salvador. I could except for the children, the poor, bruised victims of this insanity. Who would care for them? Whose heart could be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and loneliness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.
Jean Donovan
El Salvador. I could except for the children, the poor, bruised victims of this insanity. Who would care for them? Whose heart could be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and loneliness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.
Jean Donovan
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Several times I decided to leave
El Salvador. I could except for the children, the poor, bruised victims of this insanity. Who would care for them? Whose heart could be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and loneliness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.
Jean Donovan
El Salvador. I could except for the children, the poor, bruised victims of this insanity. Who would care for them? Whose heart could be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and loneliness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.
Jean Donovan
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
“Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.”
Hebrews 13:3
Hebrews 13:3
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.”
Hebrews 13:3
Hebrews 13:3
“Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers and foreigners, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
Hebrews 13:1-2
Hebrews 13:1-2
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers and foreigners, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
Hebrews 13:1-2
Hebrews 13:1-2
“The Lord watches over foreigners and immigrants; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.”
Psalm 146:9
Psalm 146:9
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“The Lord watches over foreigners and immigrants; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.”
Psalm 146:9
Psalm 146:9
“When strangers sojourn with you in your land, you shall not do them wrong. You shall treat the strangers who sojourn with you as the native among you, and you shall love them as yourself.”
Leviticus 19:33-34a
Leviticus 19:33-34a
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“When strangers sojourn with you in your land, you shall not do them wrong. You shall treat the strangers who sojourn with you as the native among you, and you shall love them as yourself.”
Leviticus 19:33-34a
Leviticus 19:33-34a
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’”
Deuteronomy 27:19
Deuteronomy 27:19
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’”
Deuteronomy 27:19
Deuteronomy 27:19
“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Exodus 23:9
Exodus 23:9
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Exodus 23:9
Exodus 23:9
Listening to my annual music piece…Alice’s Restaurant…amazing how many same/similar issues remain…we must continue on in hope
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Listening to my annual music piece…Alice’s Restaurant…amazing how many same/similar issues remain…we must continue on in hope
“Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day.”
Leonardo Boff
Leonardo Boff
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day.”
Leonardo Boff
Leonardo Boff
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”
Teresa of Avila
Teresa of Avila
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”
Teresa of Avila
Teresa of Avila
“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”
Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”
Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence
“Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.”
T. Berry Brazelton
T. Berry Brazelton
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.”
T. Berry Brazelton
T. Berry Brazelton
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.”
Lev S. Vygotsky
Lev S. Vygotsky
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.”
Lev S. Vygotsky
Lev S. Vygotsky
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.”
Friedrich Frobel
Friedrich Frobel
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.”
Friedrich Frobel
Friedrich Frobel
“The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events.”
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events.”
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
“The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind.”
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind.”
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci