Date: January 24, 2007
Training children environmentally
Children are important, and it is a misfortune that in virtually all industrial nations the birth rate is declining. There is lots of thought and public discussion in Germany these days about the right upbringing and education for children. Often the issue is centered on values. What values are important and how should parents and society impart these values to the adolescent generation? One value that in my opinion belongs, among others, to values education, but which has not yet been taken into broad consideration, is ecological, sustainable behavior. By this I mean, for instance, respect for natural resources – frugal use of water, conscientious energy consumption (heat, electricity). Children don’t learn frugality incidentally, but more exactly when they are deliberately introduced to it, best of all by persons who lead the way by example.
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At 8:54 AM, January 24, 2007, sl77 said...
I say glow in the dark wallpaper instead of keeping a light on atbedtime! I wonder how much chemical waste the pretty glow in the
dark stuff produces though. But yes, you're absolutely right,
but we should not make the mistake to blame the school system
alone. I think parents and other adults have to act as role
models in everyday situations.
At 9:24 AM, January 28, 2007, vggruen said...
At first we don´t train our children, we haul our children inbeing new people. Second thing ist that Christoph is naturally
right with the birth rate if we see the sustainability of our
social systems but if we look at the questions of ecological
future of the earth its not that problem, in the opposite, but
that philosopcial debate. At the question of moral education
it is right, but we discuss this to often from the good catholic
academical milieu !!, me too. @christoph/Sl77 i must say, that i
think that schools and nurse school are the best situations for
these sustainable education. For the adults in the " prekariat"
/ " lower class" it is often also a social question to former
life a sustainable lifestyle.
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