Riot in UK

We were impressed by stories related from our English teachers about true behaviour of an Englishman. How a true gentlemen hailed from the cultured British Empire and good upbringing shall be. Recently, there happened in the nation of gentlemen incidences of riot- even resulted in several mob attach and deaths!

What has gone wrong? Supposed gentlemen are all morphed into barbarian?

After much deliberation by the British authorities; it is about the situation of the Y- generation.

One of the changes that the British society has gone through and experienced by the so called Y- generations-a high percentage of this generation come from families that are dysfunctional.They have experienced some forms of negligence in their early upbringing.

The dysfunctional family comes in many manifestations. Single parent, both parents are not giving due disciplining or transmitting values to the children. Some implied the norm of family has gone wrong. Traditionally children are raised within a family. Nowadays, a baby could be born and abandoned by the biological mother. A child might experience complex changes in the family structure due to divorces and remarriages. The old fashioned " til death shall we part" no longer holds!

The fact that these Y- generation youngster are abandoned/ orphaned in the cyberspace has imbued them with the amazed power of IT. Hence they are really very savvy at it. The spread of riot through many localities is helped by the borderless cyberspace!

On one hand, we could ponder on how to bring our children up with proper values and constant vigilance, on the other hand if and only if cyberspace is used to spread goodwill; justice and peace shall prevail....truly pacem in terris

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Education

Sometimes as educators, we wonder what is the purpose of giving our children education.

The root word of education in Latin implies of to draw out. Since ancient time, the objectives of education is to bring out the best in a person. The Great Chinese Educator, Confucius emphasized the character building as a key objective.

We may fall into the conventional thinking that education is just a fulfillment of parental duty and socio-legal obligation. No doubt we hope for a better future through giving good education to our dear children. They are the future!

The current world culture, as we are already a global village, is to look at achievements. It is not wrong to look at that. However, looking at that aspect alone,would be depriving so much out of wholesome education. To build a society, there must be multiple talents and gifts. The nurturing of individual talents which is unique to each child shall not be neglected.

On the other hand, human lives in society. We cannot live alone. The child has to be taught to interact properly with each other as human person.

This comes to conclude that education involves passing on of good values- character building; putting in effort to do well- achievement. Nurturing unique individual talents for better future societal advancement.

Educators includes everyone who provides education, especially parents.