Teaching Civic Responsibility

Teaching Civic Responsibility

The area of teaching is wide. It is really hard to say that which is good or bad teaching and education. The article that we read in class was a great tool that we might have to know as knowledge. They gave us several different ideas with break into few different chapters. While I read this article, I found some great point that I agree myself, which I’ll going to write it by words.

I found an interest quote from first chapter, which is "The personally responsible citizen acts responsibly...” I strongly agree with this statement. Because, just like what they give us an examples, giving blood, recycling, volunteering etc. those are basic stuff that we must have for our own responsibility. Plus, I had experience of these facts. When I did that first time, I hated do that, because, I felt wasting time. But, since I did second time, third time and more, I finally realize myself that these things are really good things that we must have to do. As soon as we have done with responsible to citizen or our society, we will learn how does human have to live with others etc.

Secondly, there was an quote about economy issue called "When the economy’s bad and....." It reminds me to looking back our first semester of Global Ethics class.
We spend whole first semester to focus on facts corporation. Corporations are not always making good business; they give us some bad facts like pollution, losing a job, politics, economy etc. I think, it still hasn’t solved some problems yet or we can’t solve it those problems, but I believe that we can change it into better. If there are some problems around us, it means we can make it better and work.

Lastly, I wanted ask my self this question from reading. "What does this mean for teaching democracy.....?" Reason why I choose this question is because; what I am thinking of teaching democracy is not only freedom, it also teach us either how to develop our self better or for society. If you don't know about personal democracy, it won't help to understand whoever says about democracy. In our school's education system is totally different than any other schools in the world. We choose computer education systems instead of text book and we spend a lot of time to do some community service too, which means our education changes into more relate with our civilization.

When I finished this article, I found some connections with our school’s education system and some social issues from article. But, I realize that teacher and student have to develop their education systems better.