Can values truly take hold?


EMBEDDING values in education is both timely and commendable, yet it risks becoming a case of fine words butter no parsnips if not grounded in practice.

Values, after all, are not taught in abstraction; they are culti-vated through experience, reflection, and consistent modelling. Without these, efforts may merely scratch the surface.

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