Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the place to learn this.

Being a good

member

of

society

can mean different things to different

people

.

This

since,

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is no strict definition of a ‘good

member

of

society

‘ and some might have higher or lower standards of the same for a number of reasons.

Children

tend to pick up and learn concepts extremely fast and for the primitive years of their lives, their

parents

are the ones teaching them basic life skills all the way from talking and walking to eating. Some of these are not physically ‘taught’ per

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but rather, picked up by copying or mirroring their

parents

.

Hence

,

parents

might not have to literally teach their

children

how to be nice, good members of

society

but rather, be admirable

people

themselves which shows

children

that, it’s just a normal decent thing to be ‘good members of

society

’ and they don’t have to put in

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or have it be an inconvenience thinking about how to be good.

On the contrary

,

children

will be

children

and

hence

they might take time and effort

understanding

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the difference between good and bad and why

that is

the case. All

parents

might not have the time and energy to always be correcting their

children

which leads to the thought of

school

. After a certain age, all

children

spend the majority of their days in

school

surrounded by students similar to them.

This

is when

parents

cannot control and correct everything they do.

This

is when some

people

believe that

school

is the place in which

children

should be thought to be good members of

society

. Being surrounded by a lot of

people

would be a good opportunity to teach the

children

how to act in

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society

which would of course be different to if they were in their own homes in familiar situations.

Overall

, in my opinion, I think that being a good

member

of

society

should not just be taught but rather integrated

in

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children

’s lives both in

school

and at home. It is important not to isolate

school

and home to different behaviours and terms of what is acceptable as

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being a good

member

of

society

has to stem from inside. To be a good

member

it is not only about what happens in the outside world but

also

behind closed doors. Teaching in both places would help them understand the importance of it and how it impacts

others

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lives

as well as

their own.