Values

3/20/2012

While running last week, headphones and all, I heard some country and western lyrics that seemed to fit some of our cadets.  The chorus of the tune was, “I am not as bad as I once was and I’m not as good as I’m gonna be.”  It is consistent with a theme I have shared with a few prospective parents and that is that, “Riverside takes characters and gives them character.”

The following is a quote that appeared on our FACE BOOK page posted by an RMA parent.  “Much of life is a moral and spiritual journey, and we undertake it, at least in part, to find our way morally and spiritually.  Thus, it makes no sense to send young people forth on such an endeavor having offered them only some timid, vacillating opinions about conduct in the hope that in their wanderings, they will stumble onto personal preferences, which will become their values.  We must give our children better equipment than that.  We must raise them as moral and spiritual beings by offering them unequivocal, reliable standards of right and wrong, noble and base, just and unjust.”