Obama talks about the virtues
December 1, 2008 on 10:46 pm | In Virtues around the World | 2 CommentsThe election win and victory speech by US President elect Barak Obama was a turning point in the way we view the world. His speech talked about many of the things we all strive for such as prosperity, opportunity and peace, and even more inspiring was that he referred to many of the 52 Virtues such as honesty, service, responsibility, humility and determination.
Unity is being different from everyone else but being accepted by a group. Brianna 12
All of the 52 virtues have been interpreted by children at our local primary school at Kincumber on the central coast NSW Australia, by creating artworks around what they believe each virtue means. I’m sure that the children’s interpretations are not that different to what Barak Obama wanted to convey in his speech. Sarah wrote: “Service is giving a favour without asking” something very profound for a 9 year old. Our goal is to have artwork interpretations of the 52 virtues from at least 52 different cultures so a “virtues” movement will be created to help build a better world. Let the process begin!
Doug Beckers
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Thanks for your thoughful post Doug, great to see that the virtues are being interpreted in this way.
Evan, Scottsdale.
Comment by Evan Goan — December 2, 2008 #
Congratulations.
This is such an inspirational site, educational, fun, colorful, most of all very universal. Facing today’s threat by terrorists who act based on hatred, I feel this kind of site shared by all the youths in the world will bring hope for our future. I am so happy that you are bulding this wonderful venue and hope this will get to so many people, children and adults, in the world. Thank you!!! Kayoko
Comment by Kayoko Mitsumatsu — December 3, 2008 #