Website owner: James Miller
I live in a society that has everything all wrong, all turned around, all upside down. By the use of time tests in school it penalizes the conscientious student. The right way would be a system that favored the conscientious student, that encouraged the trait of conscientiousness (the conscientious person is God's person --- he is a person who does what is right just because he knows that is the right thing to do --- he is faithful to his own inner self). Our school system emphasizes talent over personal merit, natural ability over superior personal character traits, quantity over quality. Instead of emphasizing such things as natural talent, IQ, etc. the right way would be to emphasize personal character traits such as honesty, conscientiousness, perseverance and hard work. The values of our school system and culture as a whole are all all upside down and turned around from what they ought to be. May 1993
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