Teaching is a moral profession. In order to truly educate another, one must have and display morals. The four moral dimensions that we discussed in class are as follows:
Providing access to knowledge for all children and youth.
Enculturating the young in a social and political democracy. (and enculturating is a word!)
Ensure responsible stewardship of schools.
Practicing a nurturing pedagogy.
The driving force for these moral standards is faith. However, faith is something that is not allowed in the classroom in our separation of church and state society...or is it? What is faith? Faith is having a belief in something, and then acting upon that belief. Does faith have to be in a god? I maintain that is does not. Faith can be in anything you want it to be. A higher power, God, a family, a loved one, a career, money. It needs to be something that motivates you to do better and want to excel. Without this faith, morals cannot exist and learning is next to impossible.
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I like your definition of faith - I think if we use the expression of value, goal, objective, etc. = those are all driving forces (too bad they don't connote the all the same expressions as faith does.)
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