Values taught at school

**Quid** · 06-23-2006, 09:42

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

Nothing in high school, but I remember my grade school principal always saying stuff about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I suppose, if this had to be taught in high School it would already be too late. Primary School would be best. On the other hand, it isn't really the school's job to teach these things to children; I would have still thought it would be the parents' main prerogative.

Quid

**Cronos Impera** · 06-23-2006, 09:48

Values toaught in Romanian high schools
1. Butkissing the E.U. is good for you
2. Political correctness is desireble to competence
3. Bribery is the solution for you. Everyone must bribe to solve something. No bribery, no succes.
4. Democracy, lazyness and the wooden tongue

**AntiochusIII** · 06-23-2006, 12:29

Isn't it interesting that people blame the political opinions opposite to them as the product of external institutionalization, aka high school?

**Avicenna** · 06-23-2006, 14:08

You mainly learn yourself from experience at school. At least, in a boarding school. You get lots of ****, you learn to handle it and how to shrug it off. Independence is one that you'll most definitely learn, among others.

Anyway, I find that it doesn't really make a difference if the school does such and such instead of something else. It's the character of the person that matters.

**Keba** · 06-23-2006, 14:50

Not so much teaching of values. Croatia has mandatory ethics (or religious education, depending on your tastes) classes, but they're fairly boring and come a bit too late.

What values I learned?

1. Do unto others before they do unto you
2. Right or wrong, you listen to the guy with the bomb (yes, I had a teacher who had the habit of carrying a hand grenade with him, threatning to pull the safety pin if we got too noisy ... it was a fake, but a bunch of 10 year old kids didn't know that)

**GoreBag** · 06-23-2006, 17:34

Yes, we also had patronizing posters on the walls of my old high school.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 06-23-2006, 19:40

Just to be clear, my little rant was the product of one particular teacher who always rammed that "do you homework or you will be a failure at life" into our throats. It got annoying about the second week we had her.

As far as answering the question, I echo the others' sentiments. Mostly it's just on a teacher-to-teacher basis, and that was earlier in my education. By high school the teachers just expect you to be a good student. If you're not, it ain't their problem.