Are We Unconsciously Nurturing Corruption?

Unfortunately, corruption has become part of us humans’ daily lives. Accepting it as okay to lie or cheat from time to time, we even encourage the younger ones to become used to it. What we have not paid much attention to is that by allowing and accepting these fallacies, young people are carelessly lying or cheating in different situations of their daily life. We must think that these young people are the future of our countries, they are the ones who will govern one day and if we accustom them to corruption in actions as small as cheating on an exam, hiding the truth and so on, we are leading them to become one more corrupt in the future world.

Starting from the basic education taught within the family, the values learned at school lead a person to show who he or she really is in the future. Instead of continuing to create robots that know perfectly about mathematics, technology, physics, etc., we must start from an early age to teach emotional intelligence, which the world really needs at this time.

In the last century, society has accustomed young people to being spoiled, to get everything “by luck”, and to think that the world is theirs. It is now a fact that young people believe they have the world in their hands from their homes. So I wonder, are these corrupt monsters being created from home? If love is the basis of education, how can you not teach from there that not everything can be complacency and immediacy? We must understand both young and old that every rule, however small or insignificant it may seem, must be followed. We ought to stop making it acceptable to think "nothing happens, this is not serious," because this is just what leads to more and more lies, cheat again and again, and in the end, become corrupt.

We must teach this is not right from our same homes, not as a mandatory lesson but rather a life perspective. To understand priorities and punish may be necessary since lately, it seems the same parents are the ones helping young people get away with their problems and think more about superficial issues. As it is commonly said in the private environment of many families, “there’s no need to worry about it child” - parents who find it trivial that their children have paid for the results of an exam, and instead of proceeding properly, they sue the school to allow their sons and daughters to have their graduation party, as it happened in our country two years ago. The current priorities this “modern world” has built seem terribly clear.

By Laura Gómez, 10B