What exactly is integrity? According to Merriam Webster dictionary, integrity is defined as firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. This definition is pretty legitimate and commonly defined by this definition. However, in our school, integrity seems to mean more than just firmly adherence to a code. It is becoming a slogan or a symbol for school that it was meant to mean honesty, hard working and being punctual to school or classes. The first time I have heard this word being widely used was after the school forced us to look at the movie “School Ties”. With this movie, it talks about how students need to face peer pressures and racial discrimination in order to maintain their integrity and moral values. I find it extremely suitable for this movie that students are supposed to follow school codes and conducts, especially for things such as cheating or lying. However, for me, integrity really means to have self discipline. With all the firmly adherence to code or moral or artistic values, it all goes down to whether a person can follow it personally to have good morality. To have integrity, it means the person has to be self conscious of what are the moral values, not just simply following the rules without really knowing why it’s implemented or enforced upon society.
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