By EARL DESCANT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS – Columbus students learn life lessons from projects Shaping students can include more than just the core curriculum of courses, through instruction on character traits like kindness, responsibility or diversity, educators are realizing. “Well, one week we covered honesty, and the students put together a video with music… Read more »
Three things in life that, once gone, never come back – Time Words Opportunity Three things in life that may never be lost – Peace Hope Honesty Three things in life that are most valuable – Love Self-confidence Friends Three things in life that are never certain – Dreams Success Fortune Three things that make… Read more »
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar… Read more »
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So we needed a poll to tell us what we’re already experiencing in the parking lots and freeways of life? Are we too busy to be nice? The Public Agenda Research Group conducted a new poll that found that rude behavior is increasing throughout the country. The poll found that boorish and selfish behavior had… Read more »
1. Lack of Sensitivity to others needs- Become an active and disciplined listener! 2. Jealousy Believe and have faith that you have unique options! 3. Self Image Adults can affirm and child can confirm acts of personal worth. 4. Different Point of View We learn from different perspectives. Promote Respect! 5. Lack of Understanding Seek… Read more »
DENVER – Colorado high school students, from athletes to musicians, will begin wearing tiny, black-and-white patches this fall that bear a single word: respect. The patch is designed to promote harmony among the typical school cliques whose divisions were exposed so painfully in the Columbine High School shooting that left 15 people dead. “We felt… Read more »
From Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility by Prof. Thomas Likona (Bantam, 1991). 1. There is a clear and urgent need, as young people increasingly hurt themselves and others because of unawareness of and/or indifference to moral values. 2. Transmitting moral values to the next generation has always been one… Read more »
1. Accept changes as the norm. Concentrate on becoming a lifelong learner, not one who sees education as the completion of a formal education. 2. Success is a fly in the eye of a frog. Success is more in what you give to others rather than a big bank account. Focus on the right priorities… Read more »
IN GOD WE TRUST If I Want to Be a Happy, Useful Citizen I Must Have: COURAGE AND HOPE I must be brave – This means I must be brave enough and strong enough to control what I think, and what I say and what I do, and I must always be hopeful because hope… Read more »
