The Six Pillars of Character
As part of educating about character, I present to you the six pillars of character. This blog is not to present these components to you formally, but to get your viewpoint on these pillars. Look at the chart below detailing the six pillars and as we have mentioned in our color unit and previous blog on visual literacy, the colors that they are depicted by.
Write
a brief description of a time when you displayed one of the pillars of
character at DHS or in the community, and tell about the impact that it had on
the person or persons involved, and how it was of value to you.
posted by Dr. Pryor at 3:04 PM
6 Comments:
One of the pillars that i have displayed in my life was fairness because i'm an Aquarius and i'm always trying to come up with ways to outsmart someone without them not knowing about like, when ever i'm either playing sports or playing video games. i'm always witty and clever, but i'm always Rebellious to things and sometimes never play fair.
Respect, given not earned; I have demonstrated this attribute for a majority of my life.At home, school, extracurricular, activities,and so on.I possess a thick skin so "i'm highly tolerant" when having human interaction. I give nor receive insults, I do not shun, or bash people with profanity/colloquial Language.In arguments yelling to try to force you're own opinion on anther isn't worth the time, and you are much better off using logic and reason to handle disagreements, you may just be in the wrong yourself.
I have showed a lot of responsibility. For example, if my grades drop, I don't blame anyone but myself. I take the initiative to study hard and work hard. Just to show, my grades improved a lot and I felt good about myself. It impacted my community by showing my younger sibling and younger family members that its not that hard to make good grades in school.
I demonstrate the "Caring" pillar in the community and in Dudley. I show this pillar at Dudley because when others need help with something I usually help them out and explain it in a way of how I interpreted it to make it easier to remember. Usually this impacts the person because they then remember and will no longer need my help. I also show the pillar in my community because my freshman year I use to tutor a middle school boy in math. I showed him how I remembered how to do the math and the easier way to remember how to do it. He eventually stopped coming to me only because I had "taught him so well" that he started helping and teaching his classmates the easier way of how to do it and that he also learned how he could interpret it in his own way. This values to me because I like to show people that someone does care and I like to see the happiness they have once they realize it.
Responsibility:
It was my freshman year here at Dudley. The freshmen tend to be the people on campus that don’t think before they do stuff because they’re new to the school, and think that because they are in high school they are big and bad now. They are also looking up the upperclassmen that sometimes influence them to do dumb things. Well my freshman year I had a few classes with upperclassmen because I’m in the academy the upperclassmen would try to influence us to skip class everyday and go to their house and “chill” with them. They would ask me everyday to go with them, but I wouldn’t go they would say I was lame for not wanting to have fun. I didn’t let what they said bother me knew it was the wrong thing to do because I want to be successful in life and would like to make the most of my education and not be like them. I knew it was also important to stay in school because if I didn’t I would be lost and possibly fail my finals which I definitely didn’t want to do because I had to maintain my good grades.
The day they decided not to skip, they were lost in class complaining about what they didn’t know how to do and wanted to copy off of me. It was brought upon them; they didn’t have their priorities in check and were worried about the wrong things so I didn’t help them. I had and still have my priorities straight till this day and stood strong through the peer pressure. The upperclassmen were simply trying to take advantage of me and I wasn’t having it.
To me it was a life learning experience not to be like those people because look at the now they graduated because people were tired of seeing them or graduated because now they realized that they had messed up. Now they are on the streets everyday “turning up” with no hopes or dreams in front of them but to do drugs, drink, have sex and repeat. For the people that realized it they are going to college trying to do something with themselves because they were only in with failing because of peer pressure.
Out of the six pillars of character present one when I used to play football. In football you really do have to listen to others because if you don’t you will not be on the same chemistry with your teammates. Its mostly about caring about other peoples and don’t blame other people carelessly.
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