Cornerstone values reproduce themselves as they are practised. They are given as they are gained and gained as they are given. Honesty, for example, is returned as trust, respect and loyalty. Consideration as courtesy, gentleness and helpfulness. While parents are the first and most important teachers of values and the ones best able to impart Cornerstone Values, the school has an important role to play.
Nothing can replace the home as the place where values are taught and observed.
There, with or without parent's help, children during their earliest years begin developing values and attitudes. In the school the most effective means of teaching Cornerstone Values is by precept, habit and example. Without question, quiet example is the most powerful of the three. Nevertheless, there is a place for the intentional teaching of cornerstone precepts and building a moral literacy. The approach is not authoritarian, nor does it seek to indoctrinate.