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why is it important to be honest in school
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- 2. Honesty If you tellthe truth, you possess the quality of honesty. If you tell the truth, you possess the quality of honesty.
- 3. Scientific Study bythe National Geographic
- 4. To protect ourselves Tocover up mistakes you have made and avoid getting into trouble To avoid or escape from other people when confronted Reasons Why we Lie
- 5. To promote ourselves Tomake people laugh To create a positive image of ourselves To gain a financial advantage Reasons Why we Lie
- 6. To have animpact on others To help people out To avoid getting friends into trouble To avoid rudeness or awkward situations To hurt other people (spreading rumours) Reasons Why we Lie
- 7. For Unclear Reasons Motivesare not even clear to ourselves Pathological – difficulty in telling the truth as you have a disregard for reality Reasons Why we Lie
- 8. Even high profilepeople have done it Sometimes people lie to inflate their image—a motivation that might best explain President Donald Trump’s false claim that his first Inauguration crowd was bigger than President Barack Obama’s first one.
- 9. Reasons Why weLie People lie to cover up bad behaviour. The American swimmer Ryan Lochte did this during a Summer Olympics by claiming to have been robbed at gunpoint at a gas station when, in fact, he and his teammates, drunk after a party, had been confronted by armed security guards after damaging property.
- 10. Reasons Why weLie Even academic science—a world largely inhabited by people devoted to finding out the truth—has been shown to contain deceivers, such as physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, whose breakthroughs in molecular semiconductor research proved to be fraudulent. He had duplicated falsified and destroyed data. He was a rising star in the world of physics. So why did he
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- 12. Can you everjustify lying?
- 13. A Story abouta Room with a view There was once a hospital room with only two beds. One bed, by the window was occupied by a seriously ill patient. The other was occupied by a patient who had to lie down all the time.
- 14. The man bythe window could sit up for one hour every day. The man lying down asked him to describe what he could see from the window….
- 15. “ Well,” saidthe man by the window……. He described the lovely park and the children playing.
- 16. “ There’s an ice-cream vanwith people queuing to buy a delicious treat.”
- 17. “ I canjust see a lake with swans swimming ..”
- 18. Every day theman by the window described what was outside. The months went by and the seasons changed. Soon the lake was frozen.
- 19. Sadly, one morning,a nurse discovered that the man by the window had passed away in his sleep. Soon the man who could not sit up was moved to the bed by the window.
- 20. The first thinghe did was…. To look out of the window… All he could see was a dreary brick wall.
- 21. He called thenurse….. “My dear friend described so many things to me from this window…but there’s just a brick wall.” The nurse replied: “ Your friend was blind –he couldn’t see a thing.”
- 22. “ Perhaps, he just wanted to make you happy?” Is it wrong to make someone happy in this way? Could this be seen as being thoughtful?
- 23. Discuss all thereasons why we sometimes lie Discuss how lying can affect trust Discuss how lying can affect relationships and friendships http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zmd34wx Watch video clip Lara’s little lie and discuss Discuss times when it may be more thoughtful not to be completely honest How can we make sure we are more thoughtful around the college as a year group. Tutor time activities