With effort and persistence children can be educated so that they accept almost anything.
In Japan, it appears that they have managed to raise children who believe in honor, and community. When those values are instilled at a young age, they become the person’s very nature.
In the US, the liberals have taken over the schools and raised several generations that believe in socialism, victimhood, and reliance on the government. Those traits are becoming the very nature of people in the US.
Sad
Japan is about family, community and honor. Too much of America is about “ME!”
Exactly. Just this week my 13 yr old and I were talking (some days I really love homeschooling) about modernism, marxist socialism, progressive education and how they all contributed to the moral relativism and lack of personal responsibility so prevalent in our society over the past few generations. I told her how back when her grandfather was in school, it was unheard of for a teenager to be disrespectful in class.
This is what her book says:
“[John] Dewey [father of progressive education] emphasized permissiveness in the classroom, saying that children should be permitted to ‘do their own thing’ because they learned best when allowed to follow their own instincts. He stressed social adjustment rather than academic learning. According to progressive education, problems are the result of social environment; this philosophy eliminates individual accountability and responsibility. Progressive education eventually led to the breakdown of academic and moral standards in American schools in the latter half of the 20th century.”