Lying in Relationship to Education

During our last class, we spent a lot of time discussing the concept of lying and how lying affects the relationship between the teacher and the student. During this conversation, we talked about many different concepts. One being that although lying is inherently bad, it isn't bad because of what happens to someone else, but rather it's bad for what it does to the person being the liar. It allows one to deny themselves from a reality they know to be true. I find this very interesting. It seems like, for one to acknowledge that something is true and a part of reality, you must be able to admit that, but if you cannot admit the truth to another, than not only are you refusing that person access to what is a reality, but you are denying acceptance of what you know is true. I would never have thought about lying in that sense, but after thinking about it and talking it through, it makes a lot of sense to me.

If you relate this to being an educator, if you lie to students, you are, it seems withholding the right their right to be fully informed of the reality they live in, as well as with holding the ability to accept the reality you yourself live in. You no longer become a credible person to teach if you can not teach about what is or is not a part of reality,