Analyze/The rules that society establishes to allow individuals to live in peace and claim their rights when necessary are also interpellations addressed to all citizens, regardless of their social rank because the contribution of all is required in the promotion of good values which themselves first require quality education at the base. In kindergarten or in class one, when a teacher asks the children under their responsibility to pronounce or spell a word, they do it. And the same goes for behaviours to display in society. They don't just listen; they also put into practice what they have been taught thanks to the help of their parents who like their teachers have the duty to help them grow and persevere in righteousness and by also answer to their questions according to their level of understanding in a world where the moral values to be transmitted and retransmitted are constantly tested by counter-values.
An African head of State chose to greatly reward in October 2021 a young man who had refused to keep for himself what did not belong to him because he said and we are going to paraphrase it, his parents did not teach him to behave in this way. This example, which does not make us forget other acts of the same nature that we observe sporadically in our extremely materialist societies, is tangible proof that in everything that Mens do, or whatever they chose to do, they must remain faithful to their basic education. The one they received when their conscience was still innocent and which will still give them the ability to demonstrate sincerity and integrity even when these values are put to the test by certain insidious circumstances of life. If indeed for some it is unacceptable to behave exemplarily or virtuously in a world plagued by sickening injustices, it is nevertheless important to note that all those who illegally take what does not belong to them and find themselves in prison are the reflection of the society in which they live; that is to say, a society where excess mocks moderation on a daily basis. A society where instead of being content with what we have so as not to envy what others have and hoping to have not better than what others have, but better than what we already have, we prefer to be victims of a reality which maintains senseless and deplorable conflictual relationships.
The need for the right measure comes down to this: Be a schoolboy or a schoolgirl and just do school. The same thing is valid for primary, secondary and university students because you must not be student and drug trafficker at the same time. Even if this is what our societies have unofficially adopted, it is not what the school teaches and recommends. If a child or an adult has to do something else apart from going to school or studying, what he has to do must be in accordance with the values that the school defends and above all that the desired goal or the money earned does not have a morally unacceptable source. And to be able to do this you must already have a quality education at the base. We complain that our countries are doing badly because of corruption and embezzlement while it is we ourselves who contribute to producing such individuals.
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In William Wordsworth's definition of the child from his poem "my heart leaps up"(1802), he mentions that it is "the father of Man" to say that the Men is the product of his habits and the behaviours he has had to develop since his early childhood. We must also see it as a call to remember the quality of education that we received when we were children so as not to settle for certain educational that are very often truncated, sneaky, hypocritical and borderline perverse.
There is nothing more sincere than a child in kindergarten and in class one or two. The continuation of the school career requires support which must be followed closely because the situation is serious. Many young people choose themselves as models, incarnations of the most abject counter-values there are.
The patriotic sense seems to have gone out the window even though there is tangible evidence of its presence. What does my country expect from me? This is a question that everyone should ask themselves whatever they do or undertake to do while always remembering the quality of education they received and also the rectifications that must have taken place during the time. Such a person is not told what to do; to such a person one must only reminded of duties that he or she may have forgotten. And even when we do it, obviously speaking of memory recall, we do not do it with an attitude of condescension but with the attitude of a kindergarten teacher who really knows the foundations of pedagogy because, so as not to remain excessive, we must simply be content to do what we have to do well by developing a critical mind which will allow us not to accept what we do not want but what we prefer to do because it is in conformity with the righteousness of our conscience which is only the reflection or the product of the quality of education that we received before our early childhood or the stage of adolescence. And this critical spirit in question is already manifesting itself in an innocent way among children in kindergarten and primary school. They sometimes have questions whose relevance are interpellations addressed to the older people. For example, if we say not to do this, why do others do it? In other word it is about answering the following question: Are we more just than others or are others worse than us? The answers to these questions lie in choosing the right measure because by choosing this option, the exercise of our liberty not only respect that of others, but also contribute to the promotion of good values in a world losing its bearings.
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