Human traits that matter...

Whenever I go to a class as a proctor during a testing period, I cannot help but wonder if we, teachers, really teach students what they should learn or what we should teach them... Most of the tests given to students are meant to evaluate the amount of knowledge they gained: all they need to do is just to learn facts by heart, and output it on the answer sheet..., and what is worse is, some of the facts they are expected to learn spending much of their useful time can be a sort of awful one or can't be worthwhile at all. One of the disgusting questions was about the ways of birth control, which appeared on the test of health and physical education... I won't deny the cases when it's necessary to instruct how to use birthcontrol, but it occured to me that there should be something far more important than just the superficial knowledge or skills...: mental or internal issues should be shed more light on!

Now then, what will be the significant traits that we, humans, should try to acquire by all means? There should be more than one, so it's difficult to pinpoint only one. But when I come to think of those issues, the first thing that comes to my mind is the following biblical words:

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails... (1 Corinthians:13.1-8).

Although I may not be able to explicitly tell students what is discussed above in the Bible, I hope I could reflect the essence of it in the way I live, I behave, I speak and I think etc.