Thursday, October 14, 2010

Public School Ethics

Public schools should teach students ethics and personal values but mostly at a young age. When students are in elementary school they will be more receptive to the encouragement of good ethics and might take that with them through life. Not necessarily being taught how murder is bad but define what is good and bad in a way that they will understand and not be completely exposed to the bad things in the world. These values can be categorized as the adult ethics, meaning the situations exhibiting good and bad the may not be suitable for younger students, and the young ethics which can be used as examples of the good and bad for the young students.

Nobodiness

 Nobodiness can be used to to describe the feeling you get when you feel as though no one cares for you or when you truly are alone. The word nobodiness had a negative connotation to it that has an unpleasant  appeal to many. When used in the case of feeling nobodiness from not having the care of other's it can mean they are seen as a nobody and just another person in the world. Being perceived as a nobody can give the person that feeling of nobodiness. 
 The term can also be used to have the meaning of being alone and as a result feeling nobodiness because their is no one to be with you. This use, however, may not seem negative to people like the Box Man who enjoy being alone so don't have the feeling of nobodiness or don't care about it. I feel as this version of nobodiness would be a negative thing though because unlike the Box Man, I don't want to be alone.

Beliefs from Tuesdays with Morrie

 From reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I began to see that society today really strives for the materialistic things and that in order to live a happy life we must have goals that will fulfill our lives but not by material items. It makes me think of the goals or wants that I might have that I really won't be happy with and I have noticed that I can't go through life worrying about having the best or fanciest things but focus more on finding happiness without all that and find peace of mind.