Ten Ethical Failures That Need Our Children To Resolve
If the current situation is to be corrected greater emphasis is needed on the role of citizenship in the educational programme within the National Curriculum. To equip young minds for the future in the aftermath of the current global recession, arguably created by greed and a decline in ethics, citizenship, should be elevated to equal the status of numeracy and literacy in the curriculum.
As an indication of the size of the challenge the following are suggested as examples of the collapse in ethical values. Perhaps the greatest concern is the shear number of examples that could have appeared in the list. This selection is the current personal view of the author who is open to suggestions. The list is intended to dynamic and he intends to update it each month based on feedback. To contact Alistair Owens please visit www.keen2learn.co.uk.
1. Greed in the banking industry: Incompetence, driven by the incentive of huge personal commissions moved banks from a pillar of society to abject loathing and distrust in just one year. Bank loans now have the opposite meaning.
2. Sir Fred Goodwin: (ex head of Royal Bank of Scotland) Stands to be recorded in history as the focus of the unacceptable face of greed by retaining massive pension rights in deference to the vast holes he helped create in everybody else