This is how a Korean schoolteacher underlined the importance of moral education in 1990, explaining something that for her was pretty obvious: If you fail to develop social skills, if you can't get along with your colleagues and friends, professional skills may be useless. In a Confucian country a person's human qualities (i.e., that he or she understands his or her role in society and performs in this role according to generally agreed upon norms) come first. This has had top priority in Korean education, and the schoolteacher expressed it quite clearly without making any reference to Confucius or Confucianism. This is probably the most significant aspect to note in a discussion of socialization and education as enculturation.