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Can one teach young people to be moral? Is morality something that must be taught in the home? Is it innate?
Currently I am working on a professional development platform focused on teaching college students ethics and morality. Young people seem to be incredibly disengaged from others, have little sense of what it means to be moral, gracious or ethical and don't care. How can we teach morality or is it something that is innate?
Jan 23 2013: Morals and Ethics are not taught, they are accepted by observation of others behaviours and a decision on what your behaviour will be. That is, what you will allow yourself to do and what you will not.
You are the only person you shouldn't lie to, although I understand that some people have decided that they can live with that behaviour.
In my case, none of that came from any religious affiliation since I walked out of Sunday school when I was 8 because I just couldn't believe any of that crud.
One of the worst characters in my past was the son of the local Baptist preacher. Everyone was happy when that flake moved out of town. Another kid had parents that beat him regularly but he turned out better than most.
I think that everyone goes through a period where they explore all the big questions in life. You know, why am I here, what's the universe all about, what is the purpose of everything.
Naturally, you find out that there are no real answers to this and everyone is still searching.
But nature abhors a vacuum so you fill it with what you decide is your moral code...how far you will go but no further, and what you will do and not do.
Once you have it, most of us keep it for the rest of our lives. Some of us act as role model for our kids with the hope that they take the hint and develop their own moral code along the same lines.
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Jan 27 2013: I can't get enough of the Talks you have posted. Every one is important and Barry Schwartz drives the point home.
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I feel, everyone enters this world ' hard-wired ' for goodness, empathy, trust and love. "Being a baby is like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos." (Alison Gopnik)
Once in this world, I feel, that morality, like everything else, is learned from observation as of birth. It is learned, first from one's parents, who are initial and emotive teachers, then from teachers (objectively) at school. Teachers often play a critical role because their job and privilege is to ACT ' in loco parentis'. Since our contemporary world has come to suffer from a large number of fractured families, most values must be instilled in children by teachers and mentors at schools. The teaching of morality is only possible through being the example for the child to emulate and by imparting self awareness on the children in relation to each other.
It is taught through proper socializing of a person rather than instructional, academic or any form of enforcement.
Discipline, physical or emotional, is counter active. While it forces obedience in the immediate, it desensitizes the person to empathy on the long run
It is a matter of building an ' inclusive' society instead of an ' ex-clusive ' society in which individuals are socially isolated and bullied or shunned, as allowed by the 'group'.
Morality is born and thrives in an environment of trust. Every child must feel safe in the common social environment and feel a belonging to a healthy environment.
So actually, " Kindness, care and empathy are an essential part of EVERYONE'S job, even when and if their job does not include this in it's description. Having the moral will to do right by other people, and beyond this they should have the moral skill to figure out what 'doing right' means."(Barry Schwartz)
Gary Malloy
Jan 27 2013: I believe that morality is something that you hopefully are exposed to and raised with as a young child. At a certain point or time in everyone's life they have to become responsible for themselves and their actions. Great people raise bad people and bad people raise great people.
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What you and I think is moral may not fit the same criteria as what others believe. We are all products of our environment. And in this world there are more environments that anyone can imagine so, what you may consider to moral others may not.
Morality is as individual as DNA.Jan 25 2013: Based on studies in anthropology and evolutionary psychology, nature provides us with a first draft of the moral mind which include five channels - harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect, purity/sanctity. The first draft is malleable and is then revised by family and culture. For further information, follow the link below.
Jan 25 2013: Thanks Brian - I want to spend more time looking at these five channels as it seems like a very interesting way to deliver the concept
Jan 25 2013: Thanks Ellen. To further enhance your discussion regarding "Is it innate?" I would also look at Sapolsky's entertaining lecture on TED at;
He compares the moral emotions and behaviors of aggression, The Golden Rule (reciprocity), and empathy between us and other species and the unique way we exhibit them. Good Luck!
Lejan .
Jan 24 2013: Most of our fairytale culture is based on the idea to teach moral concepts to young people, yet there is no guarantee that what is taught will be taken. As moral itself is no constant entirety and is constantly changing and mixed by religious, political and social 'belief systems', it is a task on its own for each generation to do their best in trying to hand over what deems right for them in that moment in time.
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If you, as you describe, deal with young people who already 'don't care', your question is without doubt a good one!
When I look at myself, I got all of my 'moral core values' exclusively within my family and at very young age. And this without being directly taught, like, 'Today my dear we will teach you about 'lieing', 'stealing' and 'envying' .. :o)
It was the overall 'atmosphere' and exemplary living of all the family members - besides my older brother, of course ... :o), which was carefully guiding into directions I was able to choose from. At times with consequences if my choice wasn't welcome, yet also with understanding and support at times where I had to find my own ways.
I personally belief, that a positive childhood in love and care is the most influential factor for the development of a strong moral compass and that 'outside' institutions like childcare, kindergarten and schools are hopelessly over-strained to compensate for that.
If I just look at the increasing number of children in Germany with speech disorders due to a lack of communication within their families, I would not be surprised, if 'their' moral development is lacking enough 'input' too.
As children and in terms of behavior we are choosing our role-models instinctively. This can be parents, grandparents or close relatives or even friends of the family. Important, I think is, in either case the continuity and closeness of this relationship for 'moral behavior' to transfer, as it comes as a trial and error process as well, which needs 'supervision' and constant 'correction'.
Ellen Feig
Jan 23 2013: Don -- as a teacher and a parent I consider myself a moral person, at least through my own perspective. Each and every day I teach, I consider the words coming out of my mouth and how they are received. As far as thinking anyone without a degree is scum, my father did not graduate from high school and was one of the smartest people I knew.
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Mark Kurtz
Jan 23 2013: My observation may be small and simple, but I do see there are differences in how people define morals. It is their behavior that defines their true morals. Theory is only theory. Religions teach specifics of behavior and the result is intended good relationships. These could be called morals of the teachings. What one really does is either in harmony or out of harmony with moral teachings.
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With that said we could ask young folks what they think of the ages-old teaching, "Do to others what you expect of others to do to you" The higher road of humankind thinking may be the widely accepted and ultimate definition of morals. So therefore, is a person in harmony with these higher values? It is these morals we hold as basis for good or bad behavior.
Why not ask a young person to think about how they want to be treated? Ask for an honest answer. What is their understanding if in society no one cares? What are the repercussions if no one cares? Get them to think and request from them an honest answer. We don't have to stand idle as morals decline. What real threats to themselves if morals continue decline. Real social and civil problems really do come down to personal individual behavior and we humans cannot escape that fact.
So responders, how do you reach young persons? This is the profound question asked.Jan 27 2013: I think everyone enters the world hardwired for selfishness, acquisitiveness, and rudeness. Babies want what they want when they want it and cannot conceive of the possibility that someone else has needs. After that, society takes over and what we define as morals are actually guidelines on how to better achieve our personal goals. I think we have two sets of "morals"; the ones we would like to be true and the ones that society actually values and rewards. It sounds as if you wish to teach the former while the students are more in tune with the latter. The only way to change someone's moral outlook is to provide convincing concrete evidence of the efficacy of your choices. I doubt that's possible. Society is what it is and reality may not align with what we'd like it to be. You might approach it as a kind of game theory, showing the long term benefits of ethical/moral behavior over the short term benefits of unethical/immoral behavior but even the terms moral and ethical are fairly fluid.Jan 27 2013: Have you read any of Robert (Bob) Altemeyer's works on right-wing authoritarianism? He's done excellent work in the field, and integrated social dominance orientation (Pratto and Sidanius) with his theoretic support. Let me know if you take a look at it, and it interests you.
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Jan 25 2013: That book is sitting next to my bed (I admit that right now I am in the middle of Lawrence Wright's Scientology expose)...
Linda Taylor
Jan 25 2013: Our values dictate our morals (how we behave) and ethics is the language we use to discuss our morality with others.
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There is a lot of work out there about morals and moral development. You can start with a pioneer, Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral development. However, his model does not always stand up to research and it is pretty well confirmed that his model does not apply to female moral development. Just do a lit search.
Absolutely we must teach morals all the time. I get students ready for a profession. In this profession sometimes they need to support the value and morals of others which means they must suspend their own values and morality. It is a huge leap for many. But they cannot act on their values and morals because they now understand the values and morals of the profession. They better behave as a professional or they will not achieve professional status.
There are many many professions with distinct professional values and to be a professional, you must act in accordance with the profession, which means you must integrate professional values to behave morally within that profession.
Here is a sample of a values clarification sheet that can begin the discussion of values, morals, and ethics in the classroom.
http://www.sofia.edu/resources/crc/pdf/values.pdf. I would recommend you clarify your institutional values before initiating this kind of thing.
Jan 25 2013: I agree Linda and have read Kohlberg. To model behavior I have begun creating service opportunities which they get credit for
Jan 25 2013: What I can tell you is you need to make sure to articulate outcomes to assign credit. The DOE is coming down heavy on credit and credit hours. Good luck.Jan 25 2013: Yes, you can teach young people to be moral, however the most strong influence comes from parents at the most early ages of the child development. So once again: Yes, morality is something that must be taught at home. And to answer your last question: I don't think morality is purely innate or purely learned, I believe a small part is innate and the rest is learned.
If young people seem to be incredibly disengaged form others, and have little sense of what it means to moral, gracious or ethical, and don't care, the blame is on their parents, because they didn't pay enough attention to their kids when they needed it the most. What most parents do, is to endorse their kids to the public education system hoping they don't have to pay too much attention to them, leaving all the load to the teachers, and then, when a teacher becomes strict, they go to the principals office and make a fuzz, complaining about that evil teacher, who dare to correct the poor little child who is so innocent... And I want to make it clear that I am not a teacher, but this is what I see as a common denominator, so in my humble opinion that is why universities are full of students that don't have a clue about what morality or ethics mean, and they don't give a dime.
Like I said, I believe is possible to teach young people to be moral, however I don't think college students can learn this subjects by theory and lectures, what you require is something more physical.
Ellen Feig
Jan 25 2013: As a parent and a teacher I agree with your assessment...when I taught high school I would get phone calls from irate parents when I gave their kids a bad grade; they blamed everyone - me, the school, society- but never themselves or their child. I do think that in order for there to be a moral society we must first take responsibility for our actions.
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Keith Trott
Jan 25 2013: The American Mental Health Association believes there is an ever increasing rate of mental disfunction even though more and more public money is being spent to correct the problem(s). And many people in this discussion have described a disconnect of individuals with society. This disconnect is, IMHO, much of the problem. Many people in our society today are disconnected but everything is fine for them because agencies pay the bills. Years and decades ago this was not so. For example, parents named godparents for their children in case something should happen to them (the parents). In other words, people relied on the community for support and survival, not an ever extending hand of governmental and NGO agencies.
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So why would I agree to connect with society if I can apply for and receive aid from an agency? Can't I just do what I want? And doesn't being a member of society mean getting along with the status quo? The problem is, the status quo isn't perfect so many don't want to slither through this human muck. We are imperfect, frail, guilt ridden, and not anything like a perfect, omni present, omni powerful God who will never forsake us.
To this I say, Forgiveness is divine. Prayer is used to remind and remind. Failure is what we do but not and end. So let us try, try, try again and again. Amen.
Don Anderson
Jan 25 2013: Hi Ellen, here is my concept:
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I have been digging into my ancestry (including getting DNA ancestry) and during my search I came across the "The Nine Noble Virtues" and I can't think of better virtues to follow and teach.
1. Courage
2. Truth
3. Honour
4. Fidelity
5. Discipline
6. Hospitality
7. Self-Reliance
8. Industriousness
9. Perseverance
There is nothing about religion in them, nor can I see anything a religion would abject to.
They are thought and discussion provoking.
For example: Is truth something you seek, tell, or accept?
Do you have the "courage" to accept the "truth" that you eat poorly, and have the "discipline" and "perseverance" to change? And can you be "industrious" enough to find food that is healthy and taste.
I wonder if optimism should be a 10th virtue.
Jan 25 2013: These are great - do you know where they came from?
Jan 25 2013: Yes, hehehe my Viking ancestors.
That is right there were noble Vikings, in fact as I'm discovering the Vikings were not as history generally depicts them.
They had tools 100s of years ahead of Europe, one blacksmith made swords 2,000 years ahead of Europe. Russia is named after the Swedish noble Vikings (called Rus) that traded along the Volga River.
You can Google "Nine Noble Virtues" and get more information, history and interpretations.
Jan 25 2013: This is going up on my office wallJan 25 2013: Children need to be taught rules of decent behaviour so that they will grow up to be responsible citizens. There are certain moral rules and values that has to be inculcated in children during the formative years so that they would be able to make choices that benefitial to them and to the society.
This is the responsibility of parents, even though teachers and schools are stakeholders.
Jan 25 2013: I agree but I think it is important to remember that children spend most of their day with their teachers and peers in schoolJan 25 2013: Morality is a very personal yet vague notion. Every society has or had thier own form of norms that would be equated to morals. I believe parents play an extremely important role in the moral growth of their children. Sharing personal stories and learning points work to a certain extent.
Proviidng quantity time as opposed to quality time made a difference to me as a child. Whenever I wanted to talk or such, my dad would always be there for me, even though he was pulling in minimum wage and long hours. HE instilled in me a great sense of responsibility as well as a sense of morals that have put me in good stead with my peers. While morals may shift, the values we give as significant figures in children's life enable them to evolve.
As an educator, I applaud you in your attempt to teach ethics and morality. It's not easy. Especially as they come to you at this age, where they have already 'tasted' the world.
The Scouts have a term that Scouting means 'Doing". Nothing beats a lesson on morality than to get into the trenches and do physical work.
Using lesson times to work at the homeless shelters/orphanages to make new furniture or to even organise long term stints as "Big Brother' to the underpriviledged and other such programmes will really help them to shape their ethics and sense of morality. It did for me.
Jan 25 2013: I agree with you one hundred percent that doing is probably the best way to teach morality and ethics
Lazy Human
Jan 24 2013: Morality - Its time to redefine morality like anything else as things have changed over course of time. When these words were created situation was different - I think most kids or younger people or people who wants to understand Morality or value of Moral science get confused with what is being told and what is happening. In Older days as there was no diversity among common people what was told to one person was acceptable and was practised almost by entire society but now coz its world of globalization every community is diversified so every one has different moral values for e.g. For Person from one cultural background killing animal for food is bad moral values and for other its part of life. So this brings in agreement with few comments which says "Moral values cannot be told" but on other hand because society need some rules and moral values to sustain itself -, we need to redefine moral values according to modern society. Once our modern society does that I think it will be easier to make new generation understand what are moral values
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Jan 25 2013: I agree. But how are we going to define these new morals?
Lazy Human
Jan 25 2013: Thats where schools come in - so far by large morality is taught through religion in one or other form but if kids are taught moral science with facts and little more scientific way it can solve the issue. Few hiccups can occure while preparing the curriculm in start but I guess thats achievable. Now about little older generation or "teens" - I think it will be hard but can be tried through ways which suits them and we all know social media is great on this . Make things cool for them and they will adapt it - force it and they will rebel against it. But in nutshell new scientific and factual moral science has to be part of curriculm starting grade 1. I hope i was able to make my point clear.
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Jan 26 2013: The problem is that I don't think you could ever get people to agree on what's right and wrong. You could get schools to teach philosophy/scientific method for sure, but as for "This is wrong, this is right" I don't think you could ever get that to work.Jan 24 2013: I think morality is innate until ego intrudes. '' In the land of innocent there are no gods "
I have serious doubts that morality can be taught, what can be taught is a set of dos and don'ts and it never works properly and shouldn't. Morality is absorbed 24/7 from environment, any kind of environment : political social family ....nature.
Nature is the best teacher, if we are truly attentive. I would say the only teacher.
The practical advice may look like : ' live as you teach ' . Whatever we are teaching our children our attitude morality spirituality goes trough us and is absorbed by them without words mediation, directly , then comes back to us ...and so it goes on and on.
Something like this ... :)Jan 24 2013: I think we still attempt to instill morals like we
always have. It is true, as you say, that we are
"Bombarded with sex, foul language, violence,
and overall chaos," but we still have moral
standards. I think these standards are ingrained,
innate, and we couldn't get rid of them if we tried. I agree that the bombardment has to have
had some effect on how moral our behavior is at
times, but short of becoming a dictatorial society,
that's just how it's going to be. Teaching kids to
think analytically and to be self-reflective will help
to some degree.
Roy Bourque
Jan 24 2013: We have a good and evil side in all of us. Which side becomes dominant is partly innate and partly what we learn from each other. Environment conditioning plays a major role.
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We learn from many different forums. School is one. Media is one. Home is one. Church is one (if you go). Peer pressure is one. Role models are one. Internet is one.
Today schools teach that God isn't important, most likely doesn't exist. So we get our signals from science; "survival of the fittest" and "we are a cosmic accident" are loud and clear. Video games that require killing to win the game add to the "survival of the fittest" notion. And when the media tells us that the world is coming to an end, what is right is what will keep you alive.
The idea that there may be divine retribution kept our parents in line. They thought about what they were doing because there may be far reaching penalties involved. Today, penalties are only evident in wrongdoing if you get caught. Getting away with what you can get away with is growing like a plague. Fortunately, most people still have integrity. But when push comes to shove, morality is no longer the main issue. It's all about survival. This is a hard thing to bear when you are trying to teach what is right because people have so many different notions about what is right.
Before you can instill morality, you must first establish is this all there is to life, or are we part of something much bigger than ourselves! "All is fair in love and war" and "Might makes right" are very strong statements. Is this true, or is there more to it than that?
Jan 25 2013: I feel like atheists and agnostics want to have their cake and eat it too. Everybody wants to do the right thing. The problem is, when you take God out of the equation, there's no way to tell what's "right" anymore. There just isn't. So many people are trying to, but it just can't work. The end result of atheism is that we are animals, there is no purpose to life, so you might as well do what you want and have fun. There can be no right or wrong as atheists, but I feel like nobody wants to admit that. Those of you who are atheists, what do you think? Am I completely wrong here?
Don Anderson
Jan 23 2013: I don't believe schools stop teaching morality, because teachers have no morals.
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I'm sorry but morality is more than accepting other nationalities and sexual preference, appreciating art. Liberal arts are without ethics they not even accept any religion and treat women as a subclass, and anyone without a university degree as scum.
Yes the young need to learn to live by all the noble virtues, but schools would warp the meaning of them to fit their own egos. So how about teaching students to be professional in the work place and good at their carrier.
Gail .
Jan 23 2013: I have MANY really VIVID memories of being a very young child - from being in my crib as an infant, my first time in a high chair, my first steps, the first time I ran, and the time that I realized that I knew more than my parents about what the world looked like and how it worked.
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I would say that children can teach morality to parents from the time that they are able to articulate ideas - however roughly. The problem is that parents think that they know better.
To give you context, my grandfather died with I was 4. My family was upset. I wasn't. I understood that though he was no longer around, he wasn't "Dead dead". I tried to tell them that "He's dead, but he isn't DEAD dead". I could feel him in the greater reality of which I was. They were upset and put me down for a nap. They disregarded everything that I was trying to tell them.
That's when I realized that they didn't know about the real world. (which is how I saw it). It's a world where things that you call morality are known. Their world (the physical one) was so incomplete that it was isolating and scary. It was full of mistakes. But they didn't believe me. I was four, after all.
It took a lot of years to get back what I was taught how to dispense with (at my own expense). That which our culture calls "moral" is not very moral in my estimation. If it were, I wouldn't be living in a white christian man's world. I would be afforded full humanhood with the right to own my body - as would homosexuals and other groups. I wouldn't be subjected to laws that serve Christianity and denigrate me.
I learned how to disrespect others by learning that my view (that was right) is really wrong and couldn't be trusted.
I'm not interested in learning "morality" from those who have no idea of what morality is.
Jan 23 2013: I like to believe that morality can indeed be taught to the newer generation. However I do not believe that morals and ethics can adopted by force. An instructor such as yourself should know the familiar disposition of being lost as a young student finding their own path in life. I suggest talking to a professor in Philosophy, as their teachings are exactly that.
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Jan 23 2013: As you are working with college students, here is one resource: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/office_of_research/research_centers__in/center_for_ethics_ed/index.asp
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Moral behavior is taught by parents, teachers, and everyone a child encounters. Because it has been such a longstanding interest within education, there must be a lot of curricula on which to draw for any grade level.
Ethics is best taught, I think, by bringing forward cases, or situations, in which kids can discuss what to do and from the different situations deduce basic principles.
I don't agree that young people have little sense of what it means to be moral, gracious, or ethical. Most are exposed to standards and expectations at home which may be different from what any particular person considers best behavior. They refine their views under the influence of peers during adolescence and the teenage years.
Kids love talking about what is fair and are acutely conscious of whether adults in their lives are treating them fairly and respectfully.
Jan 23 2013: Your comment made me remember a conversation I had with a group of teenagers at a middle school.
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We were discussing freedom, and one of them was really upset that he had been thrown out of a Walgreens. He was furious that he and his friends could not go into the Walgreens and hang out, afterall, this is the United States, and there is freedom to go wherever you want to.
I asked him several questions about the intent of his visit to the Walgreens, and what he and his friends did once they were in the store.
Then I explained the difference between freedom, and a free-for-all.
In his teenage mind he felt like the victim. He was seriously upset at beeing thrown out of Walgreens.
After the discussion was over, he understood the other side of the coin.
As an educator, I have always found these "teachable moments" very valuable in the classroom.
Young adults are very observant, but they are not good at discerning other's points of views, or how their actions or lack of actions may be perceived by adults.
They are so bent on their rights, they fail to think of other's rights.
And I think as educators, we have to be aware of this type of dangerous thinking, and be on the lookout for these teachable moments where we can reach out and help our young people understand what is truly fair.
Your point Fritzie is a very valuable one.
Jan 23 2013: Middle school is a great age for engaging kids in getting more nuanced views of words and ideas, to cultivate a disposition to be thoughtful and to consider the other side.
Jan 23 2013: Parents usually teach their morality to their children. Sometimes by word, sometimes by actions. Sometimes by both words and actions.
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And, even though some children are raised in an environment that might not be helpful for rearing what some would call a moral child, still the child can choose how they will lead their life as they grow older.
I don't think you can really 'teach' morality. Although, some individuals change for the better after undergoing, for example, a Bible study with a religious group, or therapy of some sort....etc....
Some on TED have stated before that what is moral to one person, might not be moral to others.
There are alot of different lines of thoughts related to your great question....I'll have to follow the topic and see what others say.Jan 28 2013: ...when everything is working on Fear, Opportunity and Greed...connect the morals and ethics with the same..homeopathy gives sweet to support medicine, we need to reverse...selling sweet but not in sweet...
RegardsJan 28 2013: Who cares whether or not it is inate if you can teach it. Here's how. 1) Tell your pupil how important it is that there is altruism in the world, talking about ghandi or however you want to inspire this do-good feeling. 2) Drop a bit of money (enough to be meaningful) in a place where you know where your pupil will find it. 3) If the pupil finds it and gives it to you, give them some and emphasize how good of a person they are for giving the money back. Even give them some of it and also donate some of the money on their behalf to some cause to which they might be sympathetic. Let them see how it helps them and others. If they keep the money, catch them and make them feel extremely guilty (don't wuss out) verbally. Regardless, you are trading incentives/reinforcers for a learning opportunity. I would say that often people are verbally reminded of morals, but don't get many chances to practice. I say give them a few practice opportunities and show them how good it feels to help people and do good. No disrespect to those that want to talk about the philosophy of this, but regardless, if you can teach it, teach it. If you want more, talk to a behavior analyst (yes, they exist, are good, and are expensive).Jan 28 2013: Consider that if you want to change behaviors, you need to change the operating reward systems. If you can do that, you can get at least the results you want, if not actual attitude change.Jan 28 2013: moral and ethical values are essential tools of human nature. we are born greedy. the pleasure is seen in material, this is a basic wrong direction where people crazily participate and ruin the harmony of nature. present generation is not taken care in this subject since the parents as well schools are busy in their own commitments. less attention is paid to inculcate self esteem and character. this is built on moral and ethical nurturing. the growth of discipline and understanding of human relation takes place. nation with moral beggars is better than unhappy millionaires.Jan 26 2013: Its not a problem its nature of every animal and human is civilized animal and thats why we have schools wherew we can start teaching kids and so called education system has to be lil strict in discipline. Kids can be taught not adults or teens especially when there is no discipline in modern societyJan 26 2013: yes morality is innate, there have been many studies that show that even animals have morals, and most of them are connected with society, in that when you behave morally you will not be ostracized from the group and have to fend for yourself. there was an interesting bbc documentary quite a few years back no (sorry don't remember the title) that examined the flaws of game theory. basically in a single encounter sure you're likely to get more from acting in your own interest, but in a society where interactions tend rarely to be once off (and even if they are there's also your reputation from previous one-off interactions) both parties come out ahead when both parties play nice. they also found that punishing those who do not play nice leads to great sharing and increased future benefits for the one punished, as well as the 'victim'.
that said we have the potential for both - ie were are innately moral but we also innately try to get the upper hand, and children need lessons in that regard, to reinforce that their innate feelings of fairness get followed while the innate urge to try to get away with having more is understood to be self-defeating.
Jan 26 2013: Very interesting re: game theory as I was of the belief that games (and competition) teach one to further their own interest rather than the interest of the whole. Having just spent some time reading about the conflict in Sudan, there are some strong global examples of the immorality that comes from acting to further one's objectives while ignoring the needs of the group.
Jan 27 2013: Game theory actual includes consideration of games in which there are repeated interactions as well as games in which the best outcome is achieved only if the parties recognize and act on their mutual interests. There are zero sum games in which every win is paired with a loss, but there are also games that are not zero sum.Jan 27 2013: "Very interesting re: game theory as I was of the belief that games (and competition) teach one to further their own interest rather than the interest of the whole."
Depends upon the type of game such as win/lose , win/win, or lose/lose. Chess - self (individual) versus other (individual), war - us (ingroup) versus them (outgroup). We tend to define our morality in terms of the "whole" or "other" by our ingroup such as self, family, friends, town, tribe, city, state, country, and mankind. As ingroup gets larger, the activation of our emotional brain (limbic) tends to decrease or becomes completely inactive because we were designed to be local by evolution. However, culture can accentuate ingroup/outgroup differences and can lead to the "other" being defined as stupid, lazy, evil, etc. (limbic) or maybe we are just "ignoring the needs of the group" (apathy, nonlimbic). Isn't that all of us, Ellen? Thanks for letting me respond to your thoughts.
Jan 27 2013: chess only if you go for a single game though. you start a league where multiple interactions are likely and cooperation is likely to spontaneously appear. it even happened during the first world war, confounding the generals as peace was breaking out along the front, with soldiers deliberately missing and warning the other side before they sent off artillery.
agree with you about the group/other, as does steven pinker evidently as he lists the increasing size of our groups as one of the 4 possible reasons as to why violence has been steadily declining for millenia. mark twain also seems to agree as he said "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness".Jan 28 2013: sorry can't reply directly to your most recent comment, please see below.Jan 27 2013: found it over the weekened, a bbc horizon episode entitled "nice guys finish first". it's on the tubes.
Jan 28 2013: Thanks Ben. Great points regarding multiple interactions leading to cooperation. Regarding group/other, I was actually taking a more pessimistic view of our chances for a more peaceful world because of our evolutionary limitations. However, after watching Pinker's talk on TED, I realize he makes a strong case for the decline in the rate of violence because of technology, increased standards of living, and trade which increases the size of our ingroup. However, couldn't one make the case that technology has amplified both the power and accessibility of weapons that can destroy so therefore even though the rate of violence has decreased historically the probability of a catastrophic event has increased?Jan 28 2013: i see what you mean in that 1 person could have a much larger effect than in the past, however the repercussions have also grown. if there was a catastrophic event the perpetrator would have nowhere to go these days, so even if a strong party such as a state approved of the action, they wouldn't be able to actually give support because it would be known and they'd suffer all manner of boycotts and other forms of lashback. recently the bank UBS chose just to pay nearly $2 billion (not million!) in fines over their libor scam rather than contest them, my guess is that this is because they know they'd lose a lot more if their practices became more widely known. with elections too back in the day you only ever had to give the impression of being decent when your picture was being taken, but nowadays there are recorders behind every vase to catch you in the act before you get the chance to do anything heinous.
Jan 28 2013: I hope you are right. All we need is one attack and the results could be catastrophic, especially if the attackers see the rewards in the afterlife versus this life, Thanks for your response.Jan 25 2013: http://djcandylovebeat.wordpress.com/157-2/
my blog site has it all please read all of my posts i wrote articular challenged for the earth as i see through the eyes of all of youJan 25 2013: I do not think that morality is innate. I strongly believe that It is learned from our environment, as shown by the fact that our moral codes have changed throughout history.Jan 25 2013: So after engaging with all of you, I have a thought - what if we, as a group, try to define the concept of morality and how it grows or is processed? This discussion below has really pushed me to readdress many of my own preconceived notions and I would love to continue this conversation
Jan 25 2013: It's a noble aspiration, to try to define morality. It seems to be a hot topic among most people. What is actually right or wrong? However, I don't think that kind of thing can be decided by a group of people. Some will inevitably disagree, and there's really not much of a standard you can base it on. It all boils down to "Because I think so." Any morality come up with by humans is by definition subjective. There's no objective criteria to judge different moralities by. Unless of course you believe in God, then it's a whole different ballgame.
Jan 25 2013: True - but if this is the case why do we, on the whole, act morally? If our morality is purely subjective, wouldn't it go to reason that most people would simply act out their dreams and fantasies. It interests me where behavior starts
Jan 26 2013: I believe in God, so my answer is that because we're all children of God, we all naturally have a bit of Him in us. That's why we instinctively kind of know what's moral or not. But we can ignore that sense, change it, or get confused with all of the different voices in the world. Do you know what I mean, though, that kind of gut feeling before rational thought that something's just right? You help someone, and you just feel good.
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Jan 25 2013: If young people seem to be disengaged and have little sense of what it means to be moral, gracious, or ethical, you may want to discuss with your peers what brought this about. It appears to be a culture change. Morality is (generally) defined as knowing and doing what is right. As I have stated earlier, a persons concept of right and wrong is determined by many factors, largely governed by the environment in which one is brought up.
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As an educator, you must know what is right and wrong in your own eyes. If you are uncertain yourself, you won't be able to convince anyone else. Don Anderson's list is a good place to start. I would add Integrity to the list. Paraphrasing Lorelei, you need to be the role model. People learn by example, not by words.
There are plenty of examples in today's society where immoral or unethical behavior has torn lives apart. If you want to teach morality and ethics, the consequences need to be known. Those examples are a good place to start.
Jan 25 2013: Ellen, have you read this book by Dr. Kent Keith?
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Jan 25 2013: Thanks MaryJan 25 2013: The teacher must be a charismatic leader. The students must look up to the teacher. Then the students will learn the teacher's morality.
Prove rationally and demonstrate through storytelling the negative consequences of immoral behavior.
Reach for their guts.
Jan 25 2013: Any specific stories that you think would work?
Jan 25 2013: Good question. I don't really have any.
I was just thinking of the way it reached my gut when I recently saw http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508194/.
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Morality is the rules of human symbiosis in our soul.
It contains our instincts (the successful experiences of our ancestors saved in DNA) plus new rules made today.
The instinctive part is innate.
The new part acquired today should be taught, the earlier the better.Jan 24 2013: We've had a few discussions on the age divide and the sudden rise of the disconnect with our young but reading further along has shown there might be different avenues.Jan 24 2013: Makes me wonder how we change this as a society? Can we change it?


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Mississippi State women's head basketball coach Sharon Fanning-Otis joined an elite group on Wednesday night.
With the Lady Bulldogs' 63-47 win over South Alabama, it gave Fanning-Otis her 600th career win and made her the 14th NCAA Division I coach to reach the milestone.
"Whether is a player of a coach, I think any milestone is always special," said Fanning-Otis. "But it's a reflection of the young ladies who are out there, because i haven't scored a point since I've been coaching, so it's attribute to the young ladies I've coached, the assistants and the fans, so It's a special win."
One of the young ladies who helped Fanning-Otis capture her 600th win was senior guard Diamber Johnson, who scored a team-high 22 points and was happy for her head coach.
"It's a great thing," said Johnson, who is currently second in the Southeastern Conference in scoring. "I know it's special for her and I've been here for four years and I've been helping her get to this point and it's been great to know that I've been a part of it in a big way."
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After the win, Fanning-Otis was greeted by MSU athletic director Scott Stricklin, who presented her with a basketball commemorating her 600th win for her trophy case. Before leaving the court, Fanning-Otis grabbed the microphone and thanked the school, players, coaches and fans.
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Cavendish considers solar powerBy Christian Avard
Staff Writer | April 11,2013CAVENDISH Another town in the Okemo Valley is considering a solar power project.
Cavendish Town Manager Richard Svec said at Mondays Select Board meeting that the town is meeting with potential developers this week to build a small-scale solar farm facility in the town of Cavendish. According to Svec, developers have expressed interest in providing solar power to the town and they have until the end of the year to access federal tax incentives and rebates for solar power development.
Were just looking into possibilities at this point and to see if they make fiscal sense. There will need to be more in-depth exploration and more presentations before we make any decision, Svec said.
The town is considering two sites for the solar farm on town land. The first location is on Power Plant Road, below the sewer plant and transfer station, and the second is on town land near the former Duttonsville School location.
Svec said the Power Plant Road location is ideal because it is on a south-facing slope. The second location is also ideal for capturing the sun but is less accessible to the grid.
In nearby Chester, a private landowner is considering a 2.2 MW solar farm at Trebo Road and Route 103. Abutting landowners raised concerns over the proposed solar farms aesthetics in proximity to their properties but Svec said the Cavendish project should not have the same concerns as the one in Chester.
The solar panels would be facing undeveloped land. We hope that some of the aesthetic issues will not be an issue with ours, Svec said.
The town will also need to set up a net-metering system with the developer. According to the Public Service Board website, net-metering is measuring the difference between the electricity supplied to a customer and the electricity fed back by a net metering system during the customers billing period. The developers receive credit for the electricity produced and the town would lease the land back to the developer for a period of up to 10 years, Svec said.
Peter LaBelle of the Cavendish Energy Committee said the town has looked at small-scale solar projects in years past but sprang to action as soon as they learned that incentives were available.
If the town were to pursue a solar farm project, it would be below 500 KW of electricity.
Due to the small scope in size, the developer will not need a Section 248 permit, which larger-scale solar projects must obtain, but a certificate of public good from the Public Service Board.
We could build something much better and sell off power but were not interested in doing that. We just want our own needs met, LaBelle said.
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K-1 star names spurning new K-1 owners amid financial concerns - Fighters Only
Kickboxing fans received the news that K-1 had been bought out by a new investor with rapturous joy earlier this year, as it was accompanied by reports that the event would be brought back to the peaks of its former glory.
But those expectations might prove to have been unfounded, or at least short-lived. Because the new owners of K-1, headed by Korean businessman Mr Kim, apparently do not have the kind of financial resources at their disposal that they were initially thought to.
Fighters Only has learned from several sources that the new owners, operating as K-1 Global, have been contacting big name fighters and making underwhelming offers to them. Some of these fighters are owed money from the old K-1 owners and want this to be paid before they resume fighting, but this is apparently not an option.
Instead they are being offered a percentage of the money they are owed, which some are willing to accept but others are not. But universally, the sources Fighters Only spoke with said the fighters are refusing a particular term that K-1 Global is trying to get them to agree to - deferred payment of purses, just like the old K-1.
Fighters are being offered contracts which contain a term to the effect that purses do not have to paid immediately after the bout, but can have to be paid by the end of the month in which that fight took place, or at the end of a several-week period after the fight.
As this reflects the practices of the old K-1, which lead to fighters effectively competing for free after purses got deferred repeatedly and then didnt get paid at all, there is widespread cynicism about the financial resources of the new K-1 owners and their ability to meet the obligations they have made such a big issue of taking on.
K-1 Global has made a partnership deal with Its Showtime, the Dutch outfit, to co-promote future ventures under the K-1 brand name - the only problem is that both Japan and Holland are effectively closed to them.
K-1 has built up as much bad blood with Japanese television networks and media reporters as it has with its former fighters, while Its Showtime is being harangued by Dutch police and politicians under laws relating to organised crime.
One source told us that K-1 is finished in Japan because it repeatedly lied to Japanese media about payments to its fighters. Bob Sapp was the first to break silence about K-1 not paying him several years ago and while K-1 was able to discredit him, they were stuck once Peter Aerts and Jerome Le Banner added their voices. When Japanese fighters then piped up, K-1 was left looking extremely embarrassed.
It had also burned its bridges with TV networks and sponsors, who wanted to know why the money they had been paying to K-1 had not gone into paying fighters. As they looked bad by association they have now withdrawn from contact with K-1 and, as Japan is a nation where loss of face is a serious issue, they are unlikely to risk further association.


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There are definitely gay male fighters in the UFC, although they're not displaying it openly. IMO, who cares, more power to them if they have talent and can succeed, props to Liddell here. Should be a non-issue but haters gonna hate.
There are definitely gay male fighters in the UFC, although they're not displaying it openly. IMO, who cares, more power to them if they have talent and can succeed, props to Liddell here. Should be a non-issue but haters gonna hate.
As long as you can fight its cool. I kinda thought Ring was openly homosexual, but maybe I was mistaken. No hate on the guy either way.
"He's got big balls. I like that." -Josh Koschek on Frank Trigg's balls.
Homosexuality is a NONISSUE in sports.
If you can fight in a fair manner, are enjoyable to watch, or someone I can learn something from.... then that's all I care about.
The same thing happened last week with Michael Sam in the NFL draft.... so what?? If he can play the game, then that's all that matters.
I do not care if a fighter is gay or not. However I agree that there is no need at all to make it public.
If a guy comes out and says "I am heterosexual and I am very proud of it" many people will consider him as a homophobe. However if a gay says "I am homosexual and I am proud of it" everybody will be like "Wow!! That's awesome! He is so brave, he is my favorite fighter now!!".
People want to put homosexuality as something normal and natural, in that case why a fighter should tell in public that he is gay?
No one is encouraging heterosexuals to brag about their sexual preferences. Why they are encouraging gays to do so? Only because they are a minority?
They want people to respect them and leave them alone with their non traditional sexual orientation, Ok, so then why they want gay fighters to come out of the closet and tell the whole world that they like cocks? That is their private life.
Who is afraid of them? No one will be afraid of some person only because he is gay. Afraid is definitely not the correct word.there are 2 reasons youre afraid of gay dudes... either youre dumb [slash stupidly religious] or you're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.. that's it!
I know a lot of gay people, and I have no problems with them at all.
However I will not deny that it makes me sick to think about a man sucking a dick or inserting his dick in another man's anus.
You can say that I am dumb or that I am unsure about my heterosexuality, I don't care.
I am not saying that gay people should be chased and punched (Like in Russia) only because they are homosexuals (Very different story for pedophiles).
Most of them are absolutely normal people and actually many of them are very talented and are really great at their professions.
It is just that I think that there is no need at all for them to come out and publicly say that they are gays. Just like for a heterosexual person there is no need at all to come out and say that he is hetero.
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
I've never understood why who somebody is banging is news. That's the way I view it.
"Ok, the 7th round draft pick/bench warmer is putting his penis in some Swimmer guy. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Ok, the girl that Tom Brady is banging, said something about the team Tom Brady is playing against. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Some old rich guy is racist. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"LeBron James said something about Mount Rushmore. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Tim Tebow celebrated a touchdown, now to debate it for 7 hours. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Some bum on the Clippers/Lakers is banging some girl who is famous for some reason (Kardashian). Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Tony Romo is banging various other celebrities. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Whoever Jason Collins is, is banging somebody. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
"Tiger Woods is banging everybody. Why is this on a sports highlight show?"
-Me watching ESPN over the course of the last 5 years
None of it should be a big deal. There should be 2 rules for sports journalism.
1) Stick to sports.
2) If a player/owner/commentator/whatever does something newsworthy, in their private life, that isn't sports related, and it is by far the most newsworthy thing they have ever did/will do, then it isn't newsworthy.
It isn't newsworthy, because they don't matter. Lamar Odom isn't a superstar. Tim Tebow was a college legend, and had a nice little pro run, but he was unproven at that level, and didn't warrant the coverage he got. Nobody ever heard of Donald Sterling before a few weeks ago. Michael Sam barely got drafted, and hasn't played in a single pro game. Yeah, I get that this stuff gets ratings, and that's what the network cares about, but that's the problem with journalism. It's fucking broken. Give it 10 years, and all news networks will just have a continuous shot of boobs, because people will watch boobs. Idiocracy is real, people.
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You don't normally have a camera crew at a guys house all weekend who is a 7th rd UFA prospect. You don't see him being discussed in depth on path to the draft or total access. If Sam wouldn't have made his announcement at the time that he did he wouldn't have got any real attention from the NFL media. Read any article about STL picking Sam and you will understand what I am saying. I'll post a link later when I'm not using my phone.
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In 1867, tons of broken statuary – buried for more than 2,500 years – was unearthed by a team of German archeologists, who had opened up the Acropolis of Athens for methodical excavation. Among the ruins was a strikingly serene female face with a head of long, intricate curls. A secret seemed to play about the smile of this Attica Mona Lisa.
When the statue was eventually reconfigured, it stood 1.18 meters high and became known as the Peplos Kore (translated as "maiden wearing a robe"). While traces of blue, green and red pigments on the statue indicated it had once been elaborately painted – the statue's long hair was a vibrant chestnut – the Peplos Kore initially gained fame for its pale, almost otherworldly, marble sheen. Even as the field of archaeology continued to develop and scholars learned more about the context in which it and the other statuary were originally created, it would still take more than a century to uncover the truth of the statue's identity – a mystery solved by color.
A bit of history
Carved around 530 B.C.E. during the Archaic Period, the Peplos Kore belonged to the time of the Greater Panathenaia, the most important and grandest festival in honor of the city's patron goddess, Athena. After intense athletic and musical competitions, the best-looking citizens marched to the Acropolis to present Athena with a peplos, a rectangular garment that was wrapped around the body and fastened with pins at the shoulders. (Yes, they dressed a statue.) Young women devoted to this cult had statues dedicated in their honor, so scholars assumed that the Peplos Kore represented the daughter of a wealthy Athenian wearing a peplos.
Then, in 480 B.C.E., the vibrant atmosphere of Athens was cut short by a disastrous war with Persia. Sparta's finest warriors held off the Persians just long enough for the city to be evacuated.
When the Athenians were finally able to return to the city, they found the Acropolis in complete ruin; they vowed never to rebuild. But 33 years later, the great statesmen Pericles persuaded the popular assembly to do so, as a lasting testament to the glory of democratic Athens and its empire. So, they buried the smashed statuary on site and erected the magnificent Parthenon in 432 B.C.E.
Color's return and role
In 1975, the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge, England, received a plaster copy of the Peplos Kore. Curator Robert Cook, extrapolating from drawings made when the statue was first excavated, painted the plaster copy's garment deep red and the front of her skirt with several columns of green and blue geometric shapes. While Cook's bold move – designed to shake up centuries of misinterpretation – was admirable, his color interpretation was not historically accurate. "Cook was not working directly with pigments from the original piece," notes Professor Vinzenz Brinkmann, a pioneer in ancient polychromy. "He was not able to see certain traces."
Two years later, celebrated archaeologist Brunhilde Ridgeway examined a different clue: the mismatch between the delicate head and the cruder torso. "Ridgeway hypothesized that the statue might be a citation of an older form," Brinkmann explains. "Possibly a cult statue of a goddess, either Athena or Artemis." The plot thickened.
But it was Brinkmann and his team, using the latest UV techniques and special fiber optics, who finally found proof of the statue's original identity. There were considerably more colors on the dress than previously detected. The biggest revelation – achieved using extreme raking light (the technical term for light that falls on a surface from the side at a very low angle) – was an intricate pattern of animal figures running down the center column of her outer garment. Each frieze featured silhouetted beasts (lions, griffins, ibexes, panthers) against a deep red background.
These startling color details revealed the figure was dressed not in a peplos as first thought, but in an ependytes, a close-fitting, richly ornamented tunic that originated in East Asia. It was a luxury item, worn only by aristocrats or in depictions of gods. Therefore, the Peplos Kore was neither a kore, nor dressed in a peplos.
"The ependytes proves the statue is not an image of an Attica girl," reports Brinkmann. "We later discovered drill holes in the hand and hair, as though she was wearing a feather crown. Based on other images of the goddess, I'm quite positive she represents Artemis."
When Brinkmann went the extra step of displaying painted replicas of the statue in the exhibit "Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity," laypeople and scholars were shocked. "Tacky," "kitsch" and "awful" were typical responses of viewers who were used to their Greek statues white and pristine, and who didn't appreciate having their certainties challenged.
Brinkmann wasn't surprised, and he admits even he has trouble accepting just how much color the Greeks really used. The greatest obstacle to uncovering the divine identity of the misnamed Peplos Kore was not scientific, he explains, but rather the human factor.
"Applying UV, microscopy – that's all standard stuff. But there's an incredible reluctance to accept ornament and color on the surface [of these statues]." When archaeologists examine ancient objects, perceptual biases immediately kick in, making it difficult to see clearly, explains Brinkmann. "The modern person has a very restricted time frame before perception closes again. It's an astonishing process. Perception is highly subjective. You have to return to these statues again and again. You always find new evidence."
This statue, broken and buried in the dirt, speaks to the spirit of a civilization. The true colors of the Peplos Kore express just how vibrant the Greek experiment in democracy really was – a culture, much like any other, that made itself up as it went along.