First blog

Hi, you may read some of my other blogs that I've done for school, maybe not. Regardless I go to the Clariden School of Southlake where we do project based learning, which means the majority of what we learn comes from our project. Right now we are working on our Fix It project. In this project we are going to learn about values, traditions, and cultures. Then after we learn about those things in different schools, and countries, we are going to find our own values, traditions, and culture we want to instill on our school. Part of this project I need to blog on a regular basis.

Today I’m writing about values. My teacher posed some questions to the class. One was “where do you think we get our values?” I think we get our values from multiple places. We first come into contact with values through our families. Based on what our family has values usually impacts what we have as ours. Or if we see certain family members show that they have specific qualities and values we copy them, good or bad. For example, I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, and a religious value that I’ve been taught is to be obedient to my faith no matter what.

Sometimes we can also get values on beliefs that come with our culture. At the moment though I cannot think of any values I have because of my culture. We also get values from our country, and living in America one value that is very important is freedom. America goes by the land of the free because our forefathers have fought for that right; whereas in other countries that isn’t necessarily a big value. There are many countries that are under dictatorship right now. Some would include, North Korea, Iran, Egypt, and Vietnam, but those are just some and there’s many more. Freedom is a big thing in America but not everywhere and that is one luxury of living in this country.

Well that concludes my post for today. We covered a lot, and there really are a lot of different places we get our values. What about you? What are your values? Where do you get them? Just some questions that we should all think about time to time.