Online feedback

Below is feedback from readers of www.jamaica-gleaner.com to yesterday's Gleaner editorial, 'Values and attitudes, Chinese style'.

partisanship killed PJ'S project

I strongly suspect that the opposition to PJ's initiative was an example of political partisanship gone insane.

- Writeous

focus on deportment

In the 1950s and '60s, Clarendon College had a deportment class. Thanks to Ms Innerarity. This was the session that really explored human values and calculated reactions and comments from everyday occurrences.

- Joy

teach them to think too

There's nothing wrong with teaching positive values and decency in schools. It is a welcome suggestion. However, in addition to teaching that, let's also add the teaching of critical thinking as well.

While we want our future leaders to be able to hold a polite conversation with their peers, exhibit good manners in whatever the setting and politely/patiently wait their turn, we also want them to be able to view situations and be able to address/solve them by thinking them through carefully and strategically. We need to teach our kids positive values and decency from kindergarten through grade six, and critical thought once they start high school.

- TrevDiMan

notorious for behaviour

What? Discipline in Jamaica? LOL. I was surprised to actually hear what most foreigners think of Jamaicans. I once had a conversation with a transport security agent at JFK Airport. They explained to me that when gate assignments are handed out at the beginning of shifts, they consider it punishment to get gates assigned to flights to Jamaica. Can you imagine that - punishment?

The world might like our atheletic abilities, our music, our beaches, but they hate us.

- Cha24389