Special Edition • Morrow County Fair and Rodeo • Heppner Gazette-Times, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - Page 17
Morrow County 4-H Helps Build Character
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Raising children to
become decent and respon
sible adults is a complex and
challenging job that is becom
ing increasingly difficult in
our society. To be a person o f
good character, youth must de
velop strengths o f the 4 “ H ’s” :
head - they must know what
is good; heart - they must
desire to do the good; hands
- they must be w illing to do
good; and health - they must
develop a lifestyle that sup
ports the desire and w illing
ness to do good. The Morrow
County 4-H program strives
to develop good character in
4-H members.
Qualities that define
good character have been de
bated by various groups but
in 1992, the Josephson Insti
tute o f Ethics with the help o f
Dobyns
1
The next generation
w ill be the stewards
o f the world.
2
The well being 2010 photography judging
o f society needs
foremost an obligation o f faith
citizens with good
communities,
the community
character.
in
general,
schools,
and youth
3
People do not
and
family
serving
organiza
automatically develop good
tions
are
also
responsible.
moral character.
Children
7
Youth have a
must be taught so that they de
better
chance
o
f
learning mor
velop the values and abilities
al
values
i
f
all
groups
work to
necessary for moral decision
gether to teach and reinforce
making and conduct.
moral values.
4
Character
8
Every adult
education is based on core
must take responsibility to
ethical values - pillars o f
model and teach the pillars o f
character development - trust
characterdevelopmcnt.
worthiness, respect for others,
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* Residential
scholars, parents,
youth workers, and
others
published
the Aspen Declara
tion. This Decla
ration has become
the cornerstone for
the character de
velopment educa
tion programs in
the United States.
The Aspen Decla
ration states:
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responsibility, fairness, car
ing, and citizenship.
5
These
core
values transcend cultural, re
ligious, and socio-economic
differences.
6
Although
character education is first and
You can see that al
though this Declaration was
only developed in 1992, 4-H,
as the youth program o f the
land-grant Universities (O r
egon State University) has
been using similar guidelines
for the past 98 years!!!!
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