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Can one teach young people to be moral? Is morality something that must be taught in the home? Is it innate?
Currently I am working on a professional development platform focused on teaching college students ethics and morality. Young people seem to be incredibly disengaged from others, have little sense of what it means to be moral, gracious or ethical and don't care. How can we teach morality or is it something that is innate?
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Don Anderson 20+
I have been digging into my ancestry (including getting DNA ancestry) and during my search I came across the “The Nine Noble Virtues” and I can’t think of better virtues to follow and teach.
1. Courage
2. Truth
3. Honour
4. Fidelity
5. Discipline
6. Hospitality
7. Self-Reliance
8. Industriousness
9. Perseverance
Note:
There is nothing about religion in them, nor can I see anything a religion would abject to.
They are thought and discussion provoking.
For example: Is truth something you seek, tell, or accept?
Do you have the "courage" to accept the "truth" that you eat poorly, and have the "discipline" and "perseverance" to change? And can you be "industrious" enough to find food that is healthy and taste.
I wonder if optimism should be a 10th virtue.
Ellen Feig 500+
Don Anderson 20+
That is right there were noble Vikings, in fact as I’m discovering the Vikings were not as history generally depicts them.
They had tools 100s of years ahead of Europe, one blacksmith made swords 2,000 years ahead of Europe. Russia is named after the Swedish noble Vikings (called Rus) that traded along the Volga River.
You can Google “Nine Noble Virtues” and get more information, history and interpretations.
Ellen Feig 500+