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Honesty is to be truthful with one’s conscience, doing the right thing at the right time. Forexample, a pupil who picks a lost pencil and gives it to the teacher to find the owner.Tolerance means respecting other people’s views even when they are different from our own.It is a very important value basic to living in harmony. Tolerance means more than a grudgingacceptance of ideas that are different from our own. It also means being fair and openminded. For example, people of different cultures or religion should tolerate one another’sbeliefs and practices.Temperance is a quality which makes a person govern/control his or her emotions. It isregarded as characteristic of all the moral virtues that control longing for pleasures of thesenses, for example, the desire to steal. Temperance is associated with other virtues likeabstinence, chastity and modesty.Prudence is the ability to decide on the most suitable action. It means caution and wisdom inconduct.Fortitude is the ability to stick to one’s convictions or values. Such persons are not easilymoved by emotions or appearance. It also describes the courage by individuals sufferinggreat pain or facing great difficulties.Activity 3 (2 periods)1 Let pupils read the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan.2 In pairs, let them identify human virtues demonstrated in the parable.3 Let pupils tell who displayed human virtues and who displayed vices in the parable.14