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Are values taught or learned?
Values are learned throughout the life cycle. In early childhood value learning is influenced by a process of interpersonal identification with the parents.
Can values be taught or caught?
Moral values are caught, not taught.
Can moral values be taught?
As Robert Fulgham writes in his book “All I Really Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,” most moral values can be taught to a child at a very young age, such as sharing, compromising, getting along and learning to clean up, listening to the teacher and so on.
How values can be learned?
Children learn values and beliefs through their exposure to the larger world. Through friends, extended family, books, TV and the experiences they have in their community, children absorb values and societal norms.
Why can’t values be caught taught?
It means that values or behaviors are learned from the people who practice them, instead of being told. We catch these values by seeing them live by example. The values that we actually live are rather than purely taught. Simply put, moral values are not taught but caught.
Why are values caught not taught?
Values are neither taught nor caught. Values are learned from our own experience. For example, when I was a child, I was beaten when I did something “wrong.” I learned two values.
Should values be taught?
Yes, values can indeed be taught as a subject. But since it’s a subject that does not deal with facts, and since we cannot always claim to be more conscientious than our children, it merits a completely different treatment. This also brings us to the question of whether values should be taught as a separate discipline.
What values learned in basic education?
Kuehn recommends seven moral values for students:
- Unconditional love and kindness.
- Honesty.
- Hard work.
- Respect for others.
- Cooperation.
- Compassion.
- Forgiveness.
How are values taught and developed?