In a nation where war,
deceit, destruction and death are glorified as societal
goods – where success depends oftentimes upon the failure
of others and its object is measured ephemerally only in
terms of riches, it is ever so in the affairs of men that
the putative masters of wealth and of status are accorded
far greater deference and respect than the nobilities of
character and of deeds. Will America’s youth on some
certain day recall with wonder and joy that ever there were
a time when even the simplest could aspire to great deeds
of honor and service, the very pinnacles of character which
all of us at some point harbor somewhere within the dark
recesses our being?
For this, they need role models –
teachers who keep their eyes on things above. A
re-thinking of who our young people are and what they are
doing is called for. The youth have all but struck
down the nexus of character and character is needed perhaps
nowhere more than in the nation’s schools.
Indeed they have forsaken the importance
of listening and so immaturity, irresponsibility and
inconsiderate behavior pervade. Learning gives way to
confusion, benevolence and forbearance to cruelty, violence
ensues and escalates – all harbingers of anarchy then
tyranny and ultimately chaos.
The public complain that in a social
vacuum of moral relativism, the schools and even the
families do little to align the moral compasses of our
children. People of prominence in business, law,
politics, journalism, professional sports and many others
teach our children little else it seems than to dissemble
the immutability of truth. Such thinking has long
since left our country and now the world rudderless.
It need not be so.