{"id":1335,"date":"2018-05-22T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=1335"},"modified":"2018-05-23T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T06:18:42","slug":"jehtieg-li-ngibu-ruhna-ahjar-fis-socjeta","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/jehtieg-li-ngibu-ruhna-ahjar-fis-socjeta\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to learn good citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the exception of\u00a0a few lessons at school or at home, children today are not being taught good citizenship.\u00a0Teachers and parents are not finding the time to teach children how to handle academic challenges, how to cope with exams, and the importance of\u00a0a sense of\u00a0civic\u00a0responsibility\u00a0and the difference it makes to the country and to their self-development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Civic\u00a0responsibility\u00a0is not limited to\u00a0keeping public roads and public property clean but\u00a0also encompasses obeying the law, respecting others\u2019 opinions and knowing how to\u00a0maintain decorum\u00a0in public places.\u00a0Individualism, vandalism, intolerance, racism, hate speech and road rage are all examples of a lack of civic responsibility. People are becoming less tolerant of each other.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When one ignores or does not\u00a0respect the law one is showing a lack of civic sense. Education needs to start at a young age. We need to realise that teaching civic responsibility is as important as teaching someone to beware of fire. We know that\u00a0fire causes direct harm to the person while lack of awareness of civic responsibility leads to dire consequences for society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people are so\u00a0busy trying to reach their personal goals that civic sense, in the sense of ethical behaviour, is the least of their priorities \u2013 it is almost an inconvenience for those who ignore. This attitude can do long term damage to society. This has never been the case before; we have never before lived in a culture of anything goes. Why is our civic sense eroding? I dare say that it may be down to egoism.\u00a0 Some people could not care less about the needs of others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can all agree that we\u00a0all wish to see our children\u00a0succeed in life, but many are not making the effort to bring them up as decent human beings.\u00a0 If we do not make our children aware of social issues, they will not be able to make the right decisions when they are faced with a social problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Good upbringing can\u00a0provide a solid foundation upon which one could build a national culture of civic sense and\u00a0sensibility;\u00a0 it\u00a0can make tomorrow\u2019s citizens aware of the importance of social norms that should become part of everyday life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the moment\u00a0the public could be caught up in a system of false values based on a materialistic world. For some, becoming rich fast and having more wealth than they can spend, is the ultimate aim. The Greek philosopher Aristotle once said:\u00a0\u201cAnyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A change\u00a0for a\u00a0better\u00a0society is a prerequisite for the development of the nation and this can only be obtained through the formation of the right values.\u00a0 The key to the formation of values is the ability to tell right from wrong and be able to choose right over wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a well planned education system that encompasses effective training strategies and with collective effort we should be able to instil values in the younger generation so they become second nature.\u00a0 The formation of values, as a determining factor of behaviour, is\u00a0an important phenomenon that should not be ignored.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  With the exception of\u00a0a few lessons at school or at home, children today are not being taught good citizenship.\u00a0Teachers and parents are not finding the time to teach children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1336,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[59],"issuem_issue_categories":[7],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1335\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}