Should schools teach children to value money, or to value respect, hamony, and cooperation?

Question

Does America really need another generation of greedy bottom-line thinkers, or people with solutions to big social and environmental problems?

Answer 1

fcuk sharing and all that gayass sh!t you liberal puss. Get rich, girls like that better than a wussy hippy who preaches "cooperation"

Answer 2

If they could just get them to read and write a little along with being able to due their own taxes it would be a miracle .
Your mommy and daddy need to teach you respect not the schools .
As for harmony and cooperation any intelligent parent should instill this in their children themselves .
Money makes the world go round and most people who have it got it by stomping on others .
So teach you kids the more money people have generally means the worse they are .
Teach them the meaning of friendship and that friends work together . Share in the profit and if able expand and include others .
This will make the world a better place .

Answer 3

School are there to teach them respect , harmony and co-operation.......because these are basics of life and important for the build up of personalities.........whereas society would teach them the value of money with time when they would grow up ! I think this time your country need a generation with solutions to big social and environmental problems and now there is no place for greedy bottom-line thinkers because these peoples have already done a lot of damage to your basic structure ......they are of no use..and are responsible for giving your country a bad name in the world, Credit of millions of deaths, instability in the world, imbalance of power and last but not the least a tag of "threat to the world peace"....and won't comment of internal issues !

Wish your country all the best for future !

Answer 4

Schools teach accounting, math and in certain regards self management. If it where possible, schools would also teach self-realization and empowerment. In answer to the question, schools should teach fundamental social basics, such as the value of money since it is the driving force of economics. Unfortunately, it is ultimately human will that dictates where business pratices are honest or on the sly without regards to humanity.

As far as respect, harmony and cooeration might be concerned, hopefully the children are raised in a positive environment with understand and loving parents.

Answer 5

All I can add to what rukidding said is this:

"If government could create jobs and raise children, then Socialism would have worked" -George Gilder

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor"- Hubert H. Humphrey

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves" - Thomas Jefferson

"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves" - Ronald Reagan

"Society is only as good as the individual actions of the people in it" - ME, Walter E, member of Yahoo! Answers - Today, 3/11/07

So why not start by finding a homeless person and feeding them - instead of asking the govenment to pass a law. Don't you have any initiative yourself? Let me leave you with two twin quotes, perhaps the best quotes of them all on the subject of government:

"A government that is big enough to give you what you want is big enough to take it all away" - Barry Goldwater

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"- Benjamin Franklin

Answer 6

I think it would be wise for schools to educate kids on understanding money and how to be responsible with it. Our society would reap the benefits of generations of school children learning about credit and debt, not to spend what they don't have, and being taught financial responsibility.

It can only have a positive impact and it may encourage the less fortunate to take better responsibility for their own lives and financial situations so that they aren't tied to social programs that keep them down and give them no incentive to be ambitious and do for themselves.

This country was formed to promote capitalism, opportunity for all, and that also means opportunity to take responsibility for your life's path in your own hands. If, for the less fortunate, that means finding financial aid and scholarships to go to college if they don't have the means to pay for further education on their own, all the better.

Money is not bad, it is not about greed. Although some may be motivated by greed, if we teach children to make smart choices that will ultimately affect the entire society, it is a positive thing.

Answer 7

We need to teach kids to respect other people's property and to be good traders who use our resources wisely (under Capitalism, the people who use society's resources the best get more resources so they can do more good for all of us, something that doesn't happen with those demagogues under Socialism). We don't need more mindless sheep who fail to think for themselves (many of our young generation have never thought outside of a group, but the same can be said more about adults). Alot of businesses use groupthink to make product marketing decisions, which normally doesn't work. Its the businesses that allow one free-thinking person to make the call which do the most good for our society (a business cannot be too profitable if it isn't benefiting society through its products). We don't need anymore arrogant and stupid central planners who think they're gods, but are in fact demagogues.

Most of the problems we hear about are myths and don't hold up after closer examination. About 95% of the weathermen agree that global warming, if it exists, is beneficial, contrary to the UN and Environmentalist propaganda. Scientists independent of the government are also mostly non-believers in Global Warming. There is no need for income equality because the poor are better off in a society with unequal income than anybody in a society with income equality (the poorest person in America is better off than the dictator of North Korea for example). Capitalism creates wealth. We need to let it do its wonders without governments to destroy that wealth or unions to force jobs to be outsourced.

Answer 8

That depends on how it's taught I would think. I already do teach my son the value of money, respect and cooperation. Not sure if I want the schools teaching kids these things if I happen to not agree with their philosophies.

Answer 9

No! PARENTS need to teach that sort of thing, NOT schools! How about parents taking a bit of responsibility to teach their children to be good people? Why do people insist on leaving all the teaching up to the schools who already have enough to do? If a person grows up to be greedy, bottom-line thinkers, it is because his parents are and taught their children to do the same by example.

Answer 10

There are really two question here.

The answer to the first is NO!

We need people who value money as it is the only universally recognised measure of value.

We need bottom-line thinkers. Love of money might not strike you as very attractive, but as a motive it at least posesses the virtue of clarity and contains no intrinsic malice.

There is such a thing as "enlightened self interest", and this is the means by which the community should harness the energies of its entrepreneurs.

There is no-one so dubious as someone who claims to be acting out of love.

Answer 11

I think that children should be taught the fallowing in school--
math
reading,spelling
science
history
computers
art
music
U.S. government

The teaching of a childs personal values and social responsibility's should be left up to the parents of the child to be taught at home.