Here at CMS we are dedicated to expanding our minds. Students are involved each day with spreading wisdom to others. Everyday a student uses the intercom system to read a quote, read the words of, or just make a statement from those intellectual individuals we look to for guidance and wisdom. We also use this time to build character.
There are numerous topics taught through character education.
Below are a few examples.
1. Black History Month
2. United Nations day
3. Diversity
4. Dealing with anger
5. Freedom from Drugs
6. Kind words
7. Choices
8. Self discipline
9. Helping Hands
10. Character
Black
History Month
“
Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow,
brown, black, and white, and we’re all precious in Gods sight. America is not
like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture,
and the same size. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many
colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread…All of us
count and all of us fit somewhere.”
-Rev.
Jesse Jackson
United
Nations Day
“
Since wars begin in the minds of people, it is in the minds of people that…
peace must be constructed.”
-U.N.
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization
Diversity
“
Though each flake is very different There is one point you should know: They
become one in a great blanket of snow.”
-Unknown
Dealing
with anger
“There
are few, if any, occasions when we have lost our tempers on which we look back
without regret.”
-Ashley
Montague
Freedom
From Drugs
“
Every generation must wage a new war for freedom against new forces that seek
through new devices to enslave mankind.”
-Conference
for political Action 1924
Kind
Words
“Nice
words are free, so choose words that please another’s ears.”
-Vietnamese
proverbs
Choices
“
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is
beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in
the home, there will be harmony in the nation. If there is harmony in the
nation, there will be harmony in the world.”
-
Chinese Proverbs
Self
Discipline
“
I can always be certain of learning from those I am with. There will be good
qualities I can choose to imitate and bad ones that will teach me what I need to
correct in myself.”
-Confucius
Helping
Hands
“
There comes a time when we must heed a certain call. It’s time to lend a hand
to life, the greatest gift of all.”
-Michael
Jackson and Lionel Richie
Character
“
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.”
-German
Proverb
