Education and culture, what plays greater role in shaping human behaviour ?

Question

A divide can be drawn between today's organised edu. system and what impact does the sum total of age-old ethical wisdom impart to a man wanting to grow with disadvantaged background .

Answer 1

Ah yes, the age old question, are you a product of your environment? Or, is the environment a product of you? If you were to take a child out of his paternal home while still in infancy, raising him in an environment completely opposite to what he'd have been raise in had you not moved him, what values would he retain? Follow the logic? Hate to use this as an example, but say you take a baby, born to parents whose mastery of the English language and grammar were severely lacking. Raising that child in a well-to-do home where Queen's English is spoken properly, would the child retain any of his "heritage?"
Our current education system is horribly flawed with a political agenda that is neither reality based nor truly productive in the best case scenerio.
I was born to a father who was extremely dyslexic. He attended school without fail. The teachers accused him of being lazy and stupid. At his graduation ceremony, he was given a certificate of attendance and then shoved out the door. He taught himself to read when he was in his forties.
While I attended a public school as did everyone else in our little backwoods community, I was never permitted to do homework for fear that my brother and I would be riddiculed and abused by the teachers. I have grown up and moved away. I completed a full career and retired. I returned to school and discovered that I am (to a lesser degree) dyslexic with numbers and that algebraic math is nearly impossible for me to comprehend. This has severly limited me in my ability to achieve my life goals.
I've a son, now a young man, who dropped out of school at the end of the nineth grade because his dyslexia is on the same par as was my father's. The school system here refused to help him and instead labeled him a failure who just wouldn't try.
My family has suffered immeasurably financially due to the various flaws within our institution and my father's life perspective. My IQ results show that I am well above average and almost a genius. Big deal. Opportunity for me and for my son is almost non-existant. I relate this to you because you asked about growth with a "Disadvantaged background."
For most of America, be they inner city or rural, the law is written that everyone shall attend school. What they choose to do while hunkered down within those four walls is purely up to them. What makes a school a "Better School?" It's the parents and the parent's mind set. If they are absent or do not buy into the system as a unified community, the teachers will fail, regardless of how much money and experience you throw at the situation.
Consider this. While stationed at Camp Pendleton, my children attended the public schools there in Oceanside. There was a uniform policy that was required of each student before they were (and probably still are) allowed to attend. My son would come home everyday, battered and bruised for having worn the prescribed uniform. When I approached the Dean of Discipline about this, he told me that when it was first instituted, they had about 85% compliance. with each passing year, that percentage decreased dramatically. They'd had law suits filed against them. It'd been instituted to try and curb gang violence -- this was an elementary school. The policy was unenforcable. We transferred my son to a school that is quite literally on the border of the base. The majority of the students there, all live on the base and their parents are stationed there. This school is governed by the same administration. The teachers are from the same pool, the texts, the money, everything was the same. The defining difference was that the parents all shared the same ethics and belief system. It was a world of difference. The students all wore their uniforms, they were well behaved, they all spoke the same language -- even those whose parents didn't speak English in their home, and their grades were far better.
If you are able to glean from these life experiences that I have related, the answer which you seek, then I have done my job.
Best of luck!

Answer 2

i think of there are a number of much less families in contact in faith right this moment than there have been 30 or 40 years in the past. look on the atheists who're petitioning to maintain non secular Christmas scenes from being set up, suing a school for taking scholars to work out "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and the guy who needs a statue of Jesus (that's been around for an extremely long term) removed from some property he skis on the brink of. Enrollment in non secular faculties has dropped dramatically, and dissimilar church homes are empty. beginning with the drug subculture of the '70's, faith has taken a lower back seat in American subculture. so some distance as compassion for the elderly is in contact, it was once that families respected and took care of their elderly dad and mom and grandparents, and respected their critiques. Now the belief looks to adhere every physique in a nursing residing house, and that they are going to be out of sight and out of ideas. If an elder does not have long term care coverage, they're up a creek. With the arrival of Obamacare, who knows what's going to ensue to the elderly? people who stay in international locations the place socialized drugs is the norm come here for therapy, and now we will have the comparable concern as they do. priority certainly won't take transport of to those that're seen now not efficient. No compassion there in any respect.

Answer 3

Overall, culture probably influences a person more than education, but if a person is motivated, prays, believes in God, the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit, can deliver him out of the mire of a disadvantaged life. God is able to exceedingly and abundantly, mercifully and gracefully deliver someone through many avenues. Put your trust in the Lord. LORD, IN YOUR MERCY DIRECT THIS MAN TO YOU. AMEN

Answer 4

Between education and culture...I'd say culture...just look around online at all the people who cannot write/spell properly...proof enough that even when education is available and free, too many don't take advantage of it...