Making Values a daily course
“ Grade 3 ka na?” “Kung Grade 3 ka na, kanina pa nagsimula ang klase .” Lex's classmates met him at a classroom’s doorway. He was overwhelmed in shyness that he cannot respond to any of them. What amused me most were the cynical queries raised by these children, as if they did not march together in a closing ceremony few months ago. Unlike in Grade 2 when children attended school half a day, he will devote more hours in school this year. Posted on the left side of the doorway was a paper signed by the school head. It details schedule of subjects and their respective teachers. Values. First subject and it’s a daily course. I immediately felt the desire of the institution to mould children become good persons; to nurture them become better decision-makers; or, to capacitate them distinguish good against bad deeds from the moralist purview. Great! The subject should not be considered as mere supplemental course in classroom instruction or in a ...