Teachers and parents decided it would be better to help students see the value of contributing over the disadvantages of showing burdensome behavior. They found that even very young children could recognize and experience the good feelings they got whenever they were "contributors" in school compared with the feelings they had when they were not contributing.
The teachers and parents in the Educating for Greatness Alliance believe it is entirely possible to change the main purpose of education. We can help each student find and develop his or her reason for existing to be a special contributor to society. All it will take is a steady concentration on this purpose by students, parents and teachers. Over time, if we are persistent, we will begin to see a culture of violence replaced by a culture of peace.
Lynn Stoddard, a retired educator, is the author of four books on the need to transform public education to meet the needs of students.
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This is obviously some kind of socialist plot to weaken America. If we teach people to be peaceful, they won't need guns any more and that will violate the Second Amendment.
But if we teach kids to become peaceful adults, what will happen to all those weapons producers and salesmen?
I think it's a particular segment of the population that enjoys watching violence, usually boys and men.
We are trending towards a much less violent society than even two hundred years ago when torturing animals was a local More..