Helmut Melzer
When it comes to values and educational goals, the moral principle of "honesty" is at the top of three in four people (74 percent). Respect (62 percent), Reliability (61 percent), and Helpfulness (60 percent) are also values that are considered very important. This emerges from a recent representative survey of the Ipsos Institute in collaboration with futurologist Horst Opaschowski, in which 1.000 persons were interviewed from 14 years - with the neighbor Germany, mind you.
Futurist Opaschowski: "The understanding of values stands for appreciation and value preservation and ensures a new sustainability in the values and education debate. It can be conservative and conservative, hesitant and doubtful, but also open to innovation and change. After all, value change is a process that is never completed and that constantly changes the value hierarchy. "
What the parent generation considers "especially important" in education does not agree in every respect with the ideas of the younger generation. The 14- to 24-year-olds would, if they had to raise a child today, very special emphasis on self-employment (64 percent - remaining population: 59 percent) lay. Assertiveness (61 percent - remaining: 49 percent) and teamwork (55 percent - remaining: 45 percent) play a much greater role as educational goal in teens and twens.
