Respect and Tolerance
After reading Laudato Si and Pacem in Terris and discussing their major concepts with the class, the most memorable and realistic goal that resides with me is respect and tolerance of each individual. The idea of treating everyone in our paths as if we are in the presence of God seems simple enough to comprehend, but proves to be immeasurably difficult for the vast majority of the population. The difficulty may prove true for various reasons; however, this should not be an excuse. When I was growing up, I was taught the importance of this value in all aspects of my life. Growing up Catholic, I fully understand the power and meaning of love and hate. I went to an elementary school in which our golden rule was “treat …show more content…
This class has challenged my beliefs and morals more than I ever believed possible in such a short period of time. I truly believe that this course is something that all people need to experience as I feel I have gained immense maturity as a result of taking it. This class is difficult, requires great patience, listening, explaining, discussion, and so much more. I believe this class is easily the most valuable class I will ever take, and wish everyone got this …show more content…
While it would undoubtedly be ideal for each individual to learn such tolerance and respect from their parents or guardians, this is not possible for everyone. Therefore, the education system should implement this teaching within its program as they have with human health and other academic courses. As far as achieving a “buy-in” for this program, I would hope to be able to obtain the support of many educators and very successful people in the education field that would back my goal of teaching all students the importance of respect and tolerance in regard to life skills. The first step would be getting the program to be a requirement for each US student. The success and failure measurement would be surveys, grades, statistics, social issues, and social conflicts years after the program is installed compared to before, and whatever other data the program could gather. Ideally this would be a mandatory course taught throughout all years of primary education, but if not, perhaps a school or outside program could be created with these same goals and objectives and parents could send their children here. This would be similar to a private school but hopefully a non-profit and not based on a specific religion to obtain more students. I believe once people can learn respect and tolerance for one another, they will be able to do the same with their common home, the
After reading Laudato Si and Pacem in Terris and discussing their major concepts with the class, the most memorable and realistic goal that resides with me is respect and tolerance of each individual. The idea of treating everyone in our paths as if we are in the presence of God seems simple enough to comprehend, but proves to be immeasurably difficult for the vast majority of the population. The difficulty may prove true for various reasons; however, this should not be an excuse. When I was growing up, I was taught the importance of this value in all aspects of my life. Growing up Catholic, I fully understand the power and meaning of love and hate. I went to an elementary school in which our golden rule was “treat …show more content…
This class has challenged my beliefs and morals more than I ever believed possible in such a short period of time. I truly believe that this course is something that all people need to experience as I feel I have gained immense maturity as a result of taking it. This class is difficult, requires great patience, listening, explaining, discussion, and so much more. I believe this class is easily the most valuable class I will ever take, and wish everyone got this …show more content…
While it would undoubtedly be ideal for each individual to learn such tolerance and respect from their parents or guardians, this is not possible for everyone. Therefore, the education system should implement this teaching within its program as they have with human health and other academic courses. As far as achieving a “buy-in” for this program, I would hope to be able to obtain the support of many educators and very successful people in the education field that would back my goal of teaching all students the importance of respect and tolerance in regard to life skills. The first step would be getting the program to be a requirement for each US student. The success and failure measurement would be surveys, grades, statistics, social issues, and social conflicts years after the program is installed compared to before, and whatever other data the program could gather. Ideally this would be a mandatory course taught throughout all years of primary education, but if not, perhaps a school or outside program could be created with these same goals and objectives and parents could send their children here. This would be similar to a private school but hopefully a non-profit and not based on a specific religion to obtain more students. I believe once people can learn respect and tolerance for one another, they will be able to do the same with their common home, the