As an educator, I am frustrated by a perpetual attitude of apathy. Elie Wisiel called it indifference. He said, “The opposite of life is not death but the indifference between life and death.” In my classroom, it equates to apathy. Apathy exhibits itself when my students don’t take pride in their work, don’t do their best, or fail to aim to be the best. I see it in their vocabulary, their use of time, and their loss of opportunity. If an opportunity avails itself to reap an extraordinary reward, yet they yield to apathy or complacency, they are no different than those who sat by and allowed Hitler to gain power. It is neither just nor fair to compare our trials to the atrocities of the Holocaust, but the roots of empowerment lie in