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TOLERANCE DAY
Tolerance Day 2018

2018 was all about taking charge of your own story

Tolerance Day 2018 was about marking a year of new voices, stereotype-busting and empowerment, about standing up for your own place, with your own voice and changing the narrative around you.

Popular culture made a huge shift over the year as well, with groundbreaking movements and pop culture sensations, including: 
  • Wonder Woman
  • Black Panther
  • First Female Doctor Who
  • The launch of Legally Black
  • Ireland’s first openly gay, son of an immigrant, Prime Minister
  • The #metoo movement

A suite of free materials, games, books, posters and lesson plans remain available from each years specialist topic,  all of which are designed to embed the practice of tolerance in your school.

​They work within the curriculum and are peer-reviewed by an expert panel of teachers, philosophers, child-psychologists and neuroscientists.


All materials can also be viewed and downloaded when you register for free access to the site.  
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 What is the point of Tolerance Day?
The point of the ToDay campaign in marking the UN's International Day for Tolerance is to celebrate diversity and tolerance in practice, and to ensure that we remember to make space for each other’s opinions. If opinions or ideas are objectionable or indefensible in our eyes, it is our duty to speak up and refute them. We must however try to understand the perspectives of others, develop a dialogue and build a mutual understanding, culminating in peaceful co-existence.

Tolerance is respecting the right others have to an opinion or practice, not the opinion or practice itself.

You can download a document exploring what we mean by tolerance here.

Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. The two terms are antonyms like light and dark, good and evil. If we allow intolerance, then we are no longer a tolerant society.
​No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.  Nelson Mandela

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Gandhi
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