Carpe Diem -- Seize the Day!
It is the first day of the rest of your life.
If not now, when?
If not me, who?
This is the age of responsibility and it begins with ME!
Focus on American Values
and their attendant responsibilities. Understand:
1. Principles of a democracy
2. Constitutional concepts
3. Requirement of citizens
None of US is as good as
all of us!
Develop personal skills
1. Compassion and empathy
2. Understand multiple perspectives
3. Examine own feelings and values,
capabilities and shortcomings developing a healthy, mature concept of
self.
4. Recognize ones own prejudices
5. See people as individuals, not
stereotypes
6. Balance facts and feelings, the
intellectual and the emotional
Develop group interaction
skills
1. Listen to differing views
2. Participate in group decision-making
and goal-setting
3. Develop skills of persuading,
compromising, debating, negotiating
4. Resolve conflicts, confront
controversy to find reasonable solutions
Develop social and
political participation skills
1. Identify issues requiring social
action
2. Commitment to accept social
responsibilities
3. Willingness to assume leadership
roles
4. Willingness to accept consequences
of own actions
5. Willingness to work to influence
those in political power to preserve and extend justice, freedom,
equality of human rights.
Bette Pinkerton |