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A helpful way of educating virtue is to focus on various virtues as a
family or as a class. A simple practice is to look at a different
virtue each month and think of things that involve that virtue.
Parents and teachers can help children to define a virtue and then think
of different tasks or operations that build that virtue. For
example. we start with Orderliness because many tasks beginning a school
year involve order: getting supplies and books related to various
subjects, maintaining a desk or locker, seating assignments, class
hours, behavior on campus, homework assignments, talking when called
upon, the instructions for completing assignments or putting information
on a paper etc.
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Of course there are many tasks in the home as well, getting clothes
in order before school, arranging the book back for the class schedule,
straightening one's room, getting homework done before one
goes out to recreate, eating a snack before one begins to study etc.
Simple conversations about
the virtue and what actions would be consistent with the virtue and
which would not are always helpful and not that difficult to bring
about. If you don't have any ideas, rent a video of one of Jane
Austin's stories. They possess the best examples of such
discussions we might find. If one thinks the discussion is
erudite, remember who she was writing for.
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October
1.
ORDERLINESS -- An
orderly person follows a logical procedure which is essential for the
achievement of any goal set for oneself - in organizing things, using
time, carrying out activities on one’s own initiative, without
constant reminder.
November
- SOCIABILITY
-- The sociable person makes good use of and discovers ways of
getting together with different people; manages to communicate with
them through the genuine interest shown in them, in what they say,
in what they do, in what they think and feel.
December
- RESPECT
FOR OTHERS -- A person who has respect for others acts or
refrains from acting so as not to harm, and indeed so as to benefit,
oneself and others, according to their rights, status and
circumstances.
January
- INDUSTRIOUSNESS
-- An industrious person does diligently those things especially
essential to the achievement of supernatural and natural maturity,
and helps others to do the same, in everyday work and in the
fulfillment of one's other duties.
February
- RESPONSIBILITY
-- A responsible person accepts the consequences of personal
actions, be they intentional (resulting from decisions taken or
accepted) or unintentional, so that others either benefit as much as
possible or, at least, do not suffer.
Such a person is also concerned that others should act
similarly.
March
- PERSEVERANCE
-- Once a decision is made, a persevering person takes the steps
necessary to achieve the goal that has been set, in spite of
internal or external difficulties, and despite anything which might
weaken one’s resolve in the course of time.
April
- MODESTY
-- A modest person recognizes the value of personal privacy and
respects that of others. One’s
own privacy is protected from the gaze of others; while rejecting
anything which might encroach upon it and relaxes this practice only
in circumstances which can be of benefit to self or others.
May
- FRIENDSHIP
-- Through friendship a person who already knows certain other
people through shared interests in work or leisure has regular
personal contact with them which stems from mutual rapport - each
interested in the other person and in his or her improvement
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