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Chapter 1 3 Page 32 Exercise Print
Chapter 1 3 Page 32 Exercise Print
A. Directions: Answer the following with a YES or NO. If your answer is NO, explain your answer in a
sentence.
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A. Direction: Answer the following in a sentence or two.
1. “Do good; avoid evil” is the foundational moral principle. List at least 5 good things that you have to
do as a teacher and 5 evil things you have to avoid doing.
Answer:
5 Good Things That a Teacher should do 5 Evil Things that a Teacher should avoid
1. Understand the students on what they’re 1. Don’t bad mouth another staff member of the
thinking and their work. school
2. Believe that every students can achieve 2. Don’t fail the students for personal reasons
success
3. Learn something new everyday 3. Don’t curse the students and avoid using bad
language
4. Listen to the students more than they talk 4. Don’t hit the students
5. Plan lessons clearly to achieve goals 5. Don’t harass the students
2. The Golden Rule for Christians is: “Do to others what you would like others to do to you.” Give a
concrete application of the Golden Rule as you relate to a learner, to a fellow teacher, to a parent or any
member of the community and to your superiors.
Answer:
3. Are man – made laws part of the natural law? What about the Code of Ethics for Professional
Teachers?
Answer: Man – made laws are sometimes an outgrowth of natural or physical laws. Think about just any
traffic law. These laws are governed by the laws of Physics. Professional Code of Ethics are not laws in
the same sense but you abide by them because they show the correct way to treat mankind.
4. Do laws limit our freedom?
Answer: Laws do limit our freedoms, but that will always be necessary until there is only one person left
on earth. There is a saying that goes “Your freedom ends where my nose begins.” In other words, until
you interfere with my rights and freedoms.
5. What is meant by the statement “The Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath.”
Answer: The Sabbath is made for man not man for the Sabbath means that things that might not be
usually be acceptable may be so under certain circumstances. The saying originated when Jesus’
disciples were rolling ripe grain stalks between their fingers to get the wheat out and eat it because they
were hungry. They were not breaking a law, but the Pharisees were upset about it because to them the
disciples were “working” on the Sabbath. Jesus answered with this saying and reminded them that if
some of their livestock fell in a hole, the Pharisees would get them out even if it was the Sabbath and
even if they were having to “work” to do so.
D. By means of a song, a poem or an acrostic (on the word MORALITY), show the importance of morality.
Answer: M morality, O Opens, R Rational, A Attitude towards, L Life, I in, T Tempting and Y Youth.