Corruption Should Be Taught From Young Age

[iv4n]

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no matter what principle you are going to teach the children, it is up to you how you show them what life truly is. financiially they will teach what's the most effictive way but is that the most efficient way?

Showing is teaching... Kids simply absorb everything they see or hear. And while some kids have everything they want and the best possible conditions for growing up, there are also many kids who grow up in complete poverty. What will they see and hear, and what opinion will they have about the world?

It matters what principle we will teach our kids. And the question is whether we are all capable and able to teach our kids about the right values... and what are the right values! The world shows that many are not, and the situation is much worse in reality, many children go through all kinds of traumas while growing up, what kind of people can they grow into if everything about their growing up is quite negative?

We all learn about corruption from an early age, but as kids, we have no possibility to change anything. Once we grow up, we realize that we too just accepted it as something normal.

[Mauser]

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

I am baffled on how big still the corruption problem is in today's world. With all the technological advances we are still not able to make sure that people in power act trustworthy and in good faith. There are basically two ways to get rid of corruption, the first one is your proposal to reach kids at a young age. It sounds nice if we could get only moral superior people in a country where nobody would even consider bribing others or accepting a bribe. The question is how realistic is it to teach all children that, or will there always be some bad kids trying to take the easy way. The second solution would be to get much better oversight and increase the punishment for corruption. Increasing prison sentences is probably not an option as many countries try to get criminals more quickly back into society to have more taxpayers. So the last real solution would be to create more oversight and leave one person in charge of major decisions. The problem here is that all the politicians who accepted bribes in the past will never vote for stronger laws with higher oversight.

[cryptoknightt]

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

The surest way to discourage corruption is to state clearly strong punishments for defaulters and ensure that the defaulters are made to face the full penalty of the law. If an example is made out of some individuals, it can prompt change which can have a ripple effect on the mindset of other individuals. Corruption can be an effect of an environmental factor that is when everyone around you is corrupt it is difficult for you to maintain an incorruptible culture, In other words, an environment full of incorruptible people can turn a corrupt person for the better.

True, but socialization from an early age is needed to make the younger generation aware of the evils of corruption, corruption sanctions and the bad consequences of corruption

[uneng]

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

The surest way to discourage corruption is to state clearly strong punishments for defaulters and ensure that the defaulters are made to face the full penalty of the law. If an example is made out of some individuals, it can prompt change which can have a ripple effect on the mindset of other individuals. Corruption can be an effect of an environmental factor that is when everyone around you is corrupt it is difficult for you to maintain an incorruptible culture, In other words, an environment full of incorruptible people can turn a corrupt person for the better.

Corruption is rooted on many countries nowadays. It's not seen as something people should fight at all costs anymore, but something that people should learn how to live and deal with. I agree when you say about punishing defaulters with the maximum rigor of the law, however the most important factor to decrease corruption levels is when you live in a society based on loyalty and honor. A society which has strong principles followed by its leaders and older generations will forge new generations on the right path as well.

[khiholangkang]

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

It will only waste time, even if you teach anti-corruption education from an early age, like you prohibit your child from smoking and forbid your child from drinking alcohol, no matter how hard you try, even if you are at an early age and know the journey of being a teenager, your child will try and curious about what he hasn't tried, anything including corruption, and if he grows up the orientation of thinking will change according to your child's personal interests, the mentality of a corruptor is formed because of an offer of high payments from a co-worker on a project, and moreover there is no firm law in enforcing the prohibition of corruption, it will be easy to do and corruption will continue to grow.

[beerlover]

Hell, just look at all the drug prevention programs aimed at youth and how that's worked out.  It doesn't work, because once you tap the pleasure center of the brain, a lot of people will want more of whatever did the tapping.  Add to that youths' natural defiance of authority, and any preventative measures against drugs, corruption, or teenage pregnancy for that matter are doomed to fail.

When you are prescribed Adderall and someone comes and tells you that this is bad, it's hard to believe them, you know

Well, the reason why drug prevention programs fail is that they don't tell you the truth. In school, once in a while we had a lecture about that and you know what, all they tell you is that drug usage causes death, it kills people and that's why it is bad. Rarely but sometimes they would add that drug usage cause depression but this part was mostly ignored but death was strongly highlighted. Youth don't care about it, you have to tell them truth: Drugs don't kill that easily, especially if they are pharma grade. What they do is that they mess with your psychology, destroy your brain's reward center and you don't feel a joy in life anymore, you have zero motivation, zero reason in your head to live or do something. They don't explain these details, they never talk about dopamine and serotonin, this is the real problem.

I would say prescribed and otherwise are different. When someone smokes weed, that is not killing them right away neither, it is a slow process that may happen when they are elderly, but nothing happens at that moment, unless they smoke and drive. However, when they are prescribed it, that means they need it.

In many nations of the world weed is prescribed as medicine for people who are doing chemo, you know why? Because during chemo you can't eat and you are constantly in pain, as someone who had a loved one go through chemo for 6 months, I can tell you that weed would have been great if it was legal where I live. Why? Because since it has a numbing effect, and makes you hungry, that person would have gone through the same process better, eat better, less pain. So what is right may change depending on the situation.

[HajiBagi]

Children learn by example most of the times and the are a product of what the see, hear, feel and interact with.  Learning only shapes what this lads interact with as they move through the phases of life. You don't expect to teach a child the disadvantages of corruption when every thing the child interacts with on a day to day base is completely corrupt. If we teach a child about corruption from the home what happens when the same child interacts with a corrupt society. I am not saying teaching them about the impact of corruption is not good but it will require a corrupt free environment to see it fully effective.

Morals is never learnt it is transferred. Transferred in the sense that this kids grow with them. The see justice, peace, good morals, transparency and equity has the interact with their family and society every day.

Children can be taught about the effects of corruption, but that doesn't mean they won't be drawn to it. Corruption can never end in any country because it began with our great-grandparents, and I don't think it will stop with us. In many countries, corruption is the best way to improve your life or become successful. Take Nigeria as an example. There are 100% of the population who believe that in order to be a successful citizen, you must attach to corruption.
My opinion is that corruption will never cease since it has permeated every aspect of human civilization. If you don't take care of your kids, nothing can halt corruption.

[cryptoknightt]

I think it's all about permissiveness. Very tough and strict laws are needed to prevent corruption. If some thieves' hands are cut off in public, and others are even sentenced to death, then surely others will think about whether it is worth taking what does not belong to them. A lot of democracy leads to the fact that people are no longer afraid. They begin to feel immortal, realizing that everything and everywhere can be bought and negotiated. 
Look at the laws in China. In order for people to become humane, they need very strict laws.

Right, we have to publish concrete evidence of punishment due to corruption, so that people think hard about committing corruption because of the severity of the punishment and also teach the younger generation about the impact of corruption

[Unbunplease]

If an official has a small salary (budget), then he has no choice but to participate in any corrupt schemes. The system controls the individual, not the individual controls the system. Yes, it is possible to talk hypocritically about the harm of corruption, but often the system leaves no other choice. And children... What do most of them understand about the problems of adults...  If the father works all day long, receives a small salary - and he is offered a bribe, what can be done for the sake of the child?

[ammo121810]

I disagree that corruption to be taught from a young age. Corruption is a serious issue that undermines the rule of law, damages public trust and harms society as a whole. Instead, it is important to teach children the values of honesty, integrity and accountability. By instilling these values to children during their young age, we can help prevent or control corruption and we can promote transparency and fairness. It is better to teach the children the right path and never do anything against the law.

[Lorence.xD]

You could teach them that corruption is a bad thing to do in such young age but children doesn't have to do with corruption. It already existed before when centralized system with low democracy causes them to divide the higher rank of people to low. It's already a thing before where civilization adapted it even to today current's government. Even when you tell a kid how corruption works you can't still say they might do it because from what I see some corrupt government once they tasted the instant money from corruption, they would be addicted to rob them all.

[nesty]

Teaching children about corruption from a young age can have significant impact on reducing corruption in society. By educating the children about the negative effects of corruption, they can develop strong moral compass and understand the importance of honesty and integrity. Children are impressionable and can easily absorb values and beliefs from their surroundings. Therefore, by teaching them about corruption, we can instill in them a sense of responsibility towards society and encourage them to become ethical citizens. Corruption is a complex issue that affects every aspect of society. By teaching children about corruption we can help them understand various forms and how it impacts everyone including themselves.

[hannahB4]

Where I came from, we are been taught right from primary school in business studies and social science but you can't get the meaning from that until you get to secondary school and you're been taught Economics, Ethics, and all. I know all parents and teachers do their best in teaching morals to their children and students. But it gets to a certain stage in life where greed comes in and this makes some act irrationally.

[capedbaldy]

Teaching children about corruption from a young age can have significant impact on reducing corruption in society. By educating the children about the negative effects of corruption, they can develop strong moral compass and understand the importance of honesty and integrity. Children are impressionable and can easily absorb values and beliefs from their surroundings. Therefore, by teaching them about corruption, we can instill in them a sense of responsibility towards society and encourage them to become ethical citizens. Corruption is a complex issue that affects every aspect of society. By teaching children about corruption we can help them understand various forms and how it impacts everyone including themselves.

Even though we teach education on the negative effects of corruption but without the support of education to be added to the school curriculum, our children are not easily influenced by environmental behavior because the majority of people in certain countries do not care about corruption because the government is not firm and there are no severe penalties for perpetrators of corruption, they even get remissions and just behave well will get a reduced prison sentence.

There is an animated film series entitled "Upin & Ipin - Perangi Rasuah (Combat Corruption), but unfortunately there is no English dub version yet but you can enable subtitles to translate the text, the point of the story is very useful for children to study education about the dangers of corruption and there is a message useful morals, the storyline is made child-friendly about discussing education to avoid corruption from an early age.

[Alpha Marine]

However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

In my country students are taught from a very young age to not steal, or tell lies. They are taught to be honorable people and be trustworthy. Students are taught to be good people from a very young age. I mean, there are even a few subjects that teach students about being better people in society. All these don't change anything.
To me, the only way to fight corruption is to have a system that works. Human beings would always look for ways to exploit a situation, but if there is a system that can check and balance these things then corruption will be reduced.

A lot of us that blame governments every day for stealing public funds will most likely do the same if given the opportunity. Funny enough we even do it in our own little way. I'm very certain those colleagues of yours blame the government every day for bad leadership but they're doing the exact same thing.
There are very few people in this world that won't use their position to benefit themselves illegally if it is certain that they won't be caught, or nothing will happen even if people found out able it.

[loopes]

In many nations around the world, corruption is a serious problem. It is regarded as a weapon of mass destruction that has greatly damaged several nations' public and private sectors.
Several of the factors that contribute to corruption are listed below:
(5) Civil service wages
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However, I believe that if the problem of corruption can be addressed at a young age, every country's degree of corruption will significantly decline in the near future.

Civil service wages is one of reason corruption because some civil servants who feel that their wages is low will think how they can make more money. So the corruption may be their option to reach high wages . More over, civil servants who work in the tax department is the most likely to be tempted to the corruption.

[Ahli38]

Where I came from, we are been taught right from primary school in business studies and social science but you can't get the meaning from that until you get to secondary school and you're been taught Economics, Ethics, and all. I know all parents and teachers do their best in teaching morals to their children and students. But it gets to a certain stage in life where greed comes in and this makes some act irrationally.

In order not to give birth to a corrupt generation, education is the most suitable and must be implemented from an early age, not only by teachers at school but also by parents at home. namely the lesson on Ethics and Morals.

Whether we realize it or not, nowadays Ethics and Moral education is taught less and less, either in the school environment or at home by parents. Currently, many parents are even busy with their jobs and only rely on schools to educate their children.
The main cause of the increasing number of corruptors is due to a decrease in the level of ethics and morals, especially in terms of honesty.

[Slow death]

about this issue of teaching people from an early age not to become corrupt, I think the idea is good, obviously everyone knows that this should be done, but the question we all have to ask ourselves:

Why don't they do this in most countries?

the answer is the following:

to govern a country it is necessary to have a political party (I am talking about Africa in particular), this is because only then will the person have financial, human and material resources to convince the majority of the population, it happens that each person in the political party asks for something in exchange for the support he will give to the candidate who will be president of the country and when that person becomes president of the country he starts to fulfill what he promised to everyone in his political party who supported him and this is where all the problems begin, the person comes to power being a person without character, he lies to the people and the blind and dumb people vote for that person's shit

this person starts robbing the whole country and divides with his political party and to deceive the people he builds some small things with debts he makes in international banks such as the IMF or the world bank and the stupid people are fooling themselves and continue to vote for this person and his shitty political party, this is what has happened in africa, so every step of government from the base (the lowest position) to the top are made up of corrupt people and the system cannot arrest them en masse because they are the people who they support the president of the country, without their support the president of the country may not be elected again or the day he stops being president he will suffer a lot

[Onyeeze]

Corruption does not have a limit so I believe that any country who is embracing corruption is getting their self into trouble more in that country because I know quite well that fighting of corruption stand fan condition or rules and regulation of that particular country which if anyone I learnt the rules and regulation of the country the person will be penalized due to what the law said

[dunfida]

Where I came from, we are been taught right from primary school in business studies and social science but you can't get the meaning from that until you get to secondary school and you're been taught Economics, Ethics, and all. I know all parents and teachers do their best in teaching morals to their children and students. But it gets to a certain stage in life where greed comes in and this makes some act irrationally.

In order not to give birth to a corrupt generation, education is the most suitable and must be implemented from an early age, not only by teachers at school but also by parents at home. namely the lesson on Ethics and Morals.

Whether we realize it or not, nowadays Ethics and Moral education is taught less and less, either in the school environment or at home by parents. Currently, many parents are even busy with their jobs and only rely on schools to educate their children.
The main cause of the increasing number of corruptors is due to a decrease in the level of ethics and morals, especially in terms of honesty.

Both good teaching on those sides whether it would be teach up on school and on your own home on which you are the ones who had been raising up kids and if they would be able to follow up those good values.
Then its unlikely that they would really be raised up as a bad child or whatsoever but there's no way that we could really be that conclusive when it comes to this on which we know as our children gets old then
it would really be that understandable that there would be lots of factors on which it could influenced out their overall behavior and ideas on mind specially if they are really that exposed into that.
This would really be molding up those bad ideas and other approach which it would really be opposing that being ethical.

Although teaching up some good values and other ideas which do opposed on bad stuffs, but still it wont really be giving out that assurance that it would really be followed in the end of the line.
We know that once you do place yourself into such position on which you do have the power and influence then for sure you would be thinking about on how to make more money.