KNOW YOURSELF KNOW OTHERS (KYKO)

KYKO CHARACTER BUILDING FOR STUDENTS

Introduction

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is
the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or
pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela

The development of the intelligence and character are two very important goals of education to
produce an all rounded and wholesome individual. The development of intelligence entails the
cognitive, mental and intellectual domains. Character involves the moral development, as well
as the affective and spiritual domains.

Education in the 21st. century everywhere around the world focuses on developing the
intelligence more than character, from the primary and all the way up to tertiary and beyond.

Intelligence is concerned with the development of the mind to be able to think intensively and
critically to make decision and judgment. The character has to do with the moral development of
a pure heart. Moral development, entailing the building of character embracing the improvement
of ethics, integrity, kindness, love, compassion, and humility has been neglected since the day
formal education began.

Education centered on intelligence with less emphasis on moral development is an unbalanced

education, and for many students, this can lead to disasters. It can produce indiscriminate, low
integrity and irresponsible individuals, who use their intelligence to deceive, exploit, outsmart
and use others for their own aggrandizements and to satisfy their selfish ends.

In view of this imbalance, KYKO character building assessment for student is specifically
designed to measure the current status of students' levels of intellect and the various
dimensions of their character, in order that education systems can take steps for a balanced
development to produce a more all-rounded student to accomplish the goals of a true and
holistic education. KYKO character building assessment is a diagnostic tool to map out the
magnitude of the factors (variables) of intelligence and character encompassed in its five
dimensions of self-actualization, egocentricity, socio-centricity, security, and complexity on a
Likert scale of 1 to 7 from which the students' measures on each of these dimensions may be
measured on a log-linear scale in logits.

Each participating individual as a KYKO respondent will be given a report. The first part of the
report describes the personality in terms of the traits and characteristics and the strengths and

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improvement needs on each of the variables based on the measures of the five dimensions and
its factors. The second part of the report provides guidance on how to go about improving the
mind and the heart. It also provides a list of guidelines to assist the respondents to improve
their intelligence and morality towards becoming a good and useful citizen thus enabling them to
contribute meaningfully to their country, community, family and the world.

The report is in the form of narratives and graphics. Each dimension is

represented by a color as below:

- Self-Actualization
- Egocentricity
- Sociocentricity
- Security
- Complexity

The intensities (from "High" to "Low") of measures on each of the five

dimensions, Self-actualization, Egocentricity, Sociocentricity, Security and
Complexity Dimension are represented by the intensity of the five colors.

For a free assessment of your child, please email to mrcsbt@gmail.com for us to

create the user id and password for you to gain access to our application
website.