Revisit Anticipation guide

Lying is justifiable if it's for the greater good.
I agree with this because telling a white lie to protect someone or to keep a secret is the right thing to do. but lying for your benefit isn't. The teacher's lied to Ender to protect him. They didn't tell him about how he killed Stilson and Bonzo right away so that he wouldn't be so stressed out. 
This was good because he was able to continue in battle school without all that weight of the deaths hanging over his head. 

Sometimes violence is the only way to solve a problem
Fighting might make the problem seem like it's gone but really beating people or hurting them isn't doing  anything but putting someone in more pain than they already might  have been in. Talking it out first is the best thing to do.  But in Ender's case, when Bonzo threatened him, words weren't going to be his weapon so they fought it out. This didn't really solve anything because Bonzo was killed, but it did end the fight. 

It is okay to kill someone in self-defense.
I think if someone feels threatened by someone else, and their life means everything to them, then yeah I sort of agree with this. They should try to get help from someone else so that they could try to get away from the killing aspect of everything.  Trying to defend yourself and killing someone while doing that is extreme and you have to know when it's okay.  Ender killed Stilson and Bonzo while trying to protect himself. I don't really think he meant to, he just wanted to show them who was boss.  


Words are stronger than fists.   
I still and I think I always will agree with this because it is pretty true. I haven't really been wounded by anyone but I have mentally. Some things stay in your mind forever while a bruise only lasts a week. But in the book, most people are beaten and hurt physically which doesn't really support my case.  Ender doesn't ever really sovle a problem through words in the book, it's always through a battle. In


Bullies hurt others because they have low self esteem. 
Not necessarily. This is true a lot of the time but some kids that are bullies have other "reasons" I guess there is no real "reason" that you should bully someone, but bullies say they have their excuses and reasons.  Maybe they have a hard home life and they need to take their anger out. But people like Bonzo, who had a lot of Spanish honor and self-esteem because of it was still a bully to Ender.

Only the best and brightest students should receive the best education to become a nation's leaders.  
I think that the brightest students might go on to complete more, but that doesn't mean that the kids who aren't as smart can't accomplish as much. Maybe grades are super important to some people, but I would rather be known as a person that has more people skills and knows how to interact with people than a 4.0. In Ender's game, all the students at the battle school are really smart but Ender is the smartest. He was, in this case, the best person to lead the bugger war, partly because of his intelligence and partly because of his people skills. i think a good balance of both is good. 


Revenge is never justified 
I still think that when the revenge actually hurts or kills someone, then it's not justifiable. But basically, all other revenge makes things interesting. In Ender's game though, when the human army is getting somewhat of a revenge, they kill all of the buggers off. Then Ender finds the baby bugger queen and takes her somewhere that she can thrive.  This justifies killing all the buggers because he is helping the next generation of buggers live. 

Crying is evidence of weakness.
I don't nessecarily think this because crying really helps to just let things that are building up inside of you go. Ender never crys when he gets hurt, he just cries when he is homesick. He doesn't want to show it though, because at Battle school it is considered weakness and being a baby.  Sometimes, you just have to just suck it up and go on when there's nothing else you can really do. But other times you just need to let everything go with a good cry. So I'm in the middle with this one.

Any action is acceptable in war.
I think this is pretty true now that I've read the book. So many crazy things happened that were all justifiable because it was war, the only thing I would say was unjustified was the fact that the entire bugger population was killed. This was an accident, but it was still something that shouldn't have been done in the first place, war or not.

Teenagers need discipline and rules because they can't control themselves
Obviously being a teenager is going to make me disagree with this one a little. Teenagers can be a lot smarter than everyone thinks. Teens who can fend for themselves for a while or show that they're responsible and don't need as many guidelines, as say, a teen who's failing school or completly deaf to anything their parents have to say. Yeah, we should listen to our parents when they tell us stuff, but a lot of the time we don't just cause we're at that age. Ender was so young when he joined battle school and he didn't really need anyone to take care of him because he acted so responsible for all his actions. But the average 9 year old would be A LOT more crazy and wild, which is expected. As he grows up, he stays well put together and mature. This book is from a futuristic time so it doesn't have much affect on the way I thought about this question.

Only through personal sacrifice can someone create positive change.
Throughout history, people have done things to make a point in the world. Sometimes the things they do aren't things that will benefit them, but be good for others. In Ender's game, Ender had his childhood taken away by battle school, but this ended up leading to him winning the bugger war. But is war "positive change?" What makes it "positive change" if the entire bugger race was killed?  Sappy as it sounds, I think if you can make one person's day, then you are improving the world. Because as small as you might seem, you can make a dfference by doing something good.

Generating compassion for your enemies is the only way to create peace.
I think that doing this is sometimes a way for your enimies to feel like everything they do to you won't affect you like they want. But when you're in Enders situation, kissing up to people isn't going to get him anywhere because of his situation. Ender has to battle out every problem he comes accross which only makes it worse.  I think in some circumstances it works, but in war, it's not going to work.