Values: What Has Happened to Our Society?

Values: What Has Happened to Our Society?

  • Submitted By: yen014
  • Date Submitted: 02/08/2009 8:27 PM
  • Category: Philosophy
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What has happened to our society? I mean, when someone turn on the television and tune in the news or browse the internet one will be surprised to see all the crazy things that is happening to our schools these days. What I am intending to discuss are the shooting incidents, molestations, plagiarism, and drug abuse that are now rampant among students and some school officials alike. Every normal individual has the expectation on how a person should behave at school, at home and elsewhere based on the accepted moral standard set forth by human institution in accordance with divine approval and guidance. Some of these moral values are respect for self and others, integrity, kindness and honesty.
According to Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, professor of education at Harvard University that, “Lack of respect-it's been cited as a root cause for many of the problems educators face.” (Restoring respect to our schools, 1999) Professors and students can construct an atmosphere of mutual respect if each tries to understand the other's perception. Students who are rude to professors and fellow students show the same trait in other parts of their lives, and they are not as successful in either workplace or their school. Television has contributed heavily to the erosion of manners, especially with children and teenagers. How people talk, how people cope with human relationships, how people dress, how people repeatedly solve problems with violence; television is a teacher. Sticking to fabricated and shallow programs, our manners will eventually reflect the sassy, impolite, and cynical attitudes of the characters that are portrayed on television. In today’s society a rude act can be committed without disgrace being attached to the offender; and if anyone objects, he may come under verbal or physical assault. Some youths traveling in noisy groups fill the air with foul language, obscene gestures, offending observers with their crude conduct, all deliberately designed to...

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