The Sixth Virtue Respect for Teachers

respect among East Asian learners has been taken as a sign of obedience, docility and lack of critical thinking the need for respects stems from two mutually constitutive sources. The teacher student relationship is likened to that of parent child teachers in this learning tradition are not just hired as employees to fulfill a contractual obligation namely to teach objective or scientific knowledge Teachers serve as moral guides and themselves must embody moral self-cultivation.