My classroom operates on a behaviour system that I have dubbed The Pirate Code. I refer to it a lot!
The first line in The Pirate Code is also the most important:
Do the right thing, now.
Why?
Because as Hyman Rickover says: Any system of education which does not inculcate moral values simply furnishes the intellectual equipment whereby men and women can better satisfy their pride, greed and lust.
There's already enough of that stuff out there in the world.
I think it's important to inculcate moral values - how to be good people - at home, in the classroom, and out in the world.
I trust that one day my students figure that out.
