Technology and the increasing fast trends in globalization have turned the society upside down. The youths are the fast hit in these changing trends. Students in the secondary schools join cult groups, and they perform all initiations attached to the different cult groups. Even when it is their turn to perform the rituals and sacrifices, they donate whoever they want, be it their parents or siblings. Before their people could realize these, things must have been spoilt. There is tremendous moral decay in the society. This is due to lack of censorship in the films, videos and music that the children watch and listen to. Parents and guardians feel less concerned to what pertains to their children and ward's welfare.
One would say that they are doing all these out of youthful exuberance. But any youth that grew up with the fear of God will exhibit limitations in what the person does. How many principals, teachers, or instructors these days try to correct their students who dress improperly and come to school? Take a morning look at students who go to school - The girls in very tight and mini uniforms, the boys in their ass - level trousers pulling below their boxers...This is technology and the changing trends in education.
We have to note that students who come to school naked will end up tomorrow as miscreants in the society. They will dress up as naked people tomorrow either taking drugs or becoming alcoholics, committing one crime or the other . The English adage says, " That a stitch in time saves nine," and "prevention is better than cure."
Youths should be taught the right path to positive living. The boys who wear torn trousers and fry their hair and wear an ear - ring in one ear does not make them either good musicians, international footballers, or even star actors. These looks and attachments make the one look irresponsible and mean.
Women and girls who wear mini - skirts and dresses to seduce and lure men into their debasable trap debase their womanhood and make them worthless before their men.
Indecent dressing is a criminal act, because it can make the seducer and seducee to be in an uncontrollable state to commit crime. The society should correct this trend, because if it is left unchecked, then the next word to be coined after society is "DOOM."
Dear Anthonia:
I realize your intentions are positive, but I don't think censorship or the authoritarian imposition of personal ethics and beliefs will solve the problems you mention. In my experience, the most effective strategy for an educator (and as a parent) is to practice patience, tolerance, gentle guidance, and trying to set the best example we can.
Warm regards,
David
Keep track of any changes of behaviour, sharing feeling, understanding, taking into confidence, promote/ praise good behaviour and show them yourself as role model
Dear Dave,
The Scripture says that, "there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end there of is destruction." Every positive thinker is automatically a teacher. Some of the youths who exhibit these negative attitudes were/are being influenced by their peers through negative teaching.
Truth and freedom are the basic metaphysical laws that human beings ought to live with. Truth is logico - ontological knowledge that opens the domain of objectivity according to Immanuel Kant, while freedom is not pre - supposed to mean our acting out of exuberance or the like. It means the freedom to act within the confines of Divine, positive intuition and the ability to choose to do the right thing. It means the freedom to be who we are, and to live by personal precepts, that are worthy of emulation.
Yes, I agree with you that we live and practice the virtues that we teach. We should not be the teachers who teach our students to do what we teach, but not what we do. That is hypocrisy that will not be condoned.
I want the Nigerian government to come in practically into the Education system and monitor every facet of the system and right the wrongs that are going on there. We have a brilliant citizenry that are wasting away due to ignorance and carelessness. We can make Nigeria great again. I have more, but let me stop here.
In that case, there must be a way to discourage the negative teaching.
The Bible is the manual for moral behaviours. All other moral principles seem to emanate from the teachings of the Bible. Parents, guardians and teachers should practice Biblical principles and deliberately inculcate them in their children because it is only children, as tender plants, that you can train. This is why Proverbs 22:6 gave the command "Train up a child in the way he should g: and when he is old, he will not depart from it". Train involves both doing and talking.
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