33.surer values.

[notletrest]

...more time might be spent teaching children surer values. This is from a Chinese national college graduate test paper for 1995. thanks a lot!

[Rover_KE]

It's still a mystery to me.

Rover

[Gillnetter]

...more time might be spent teaching children surer values. This is from a Chinese national college graduate test paper for 1995. thanks a lot!

The writer was confused as to the meaning of "surer". A better choice of words would have been: better, traditional, national, religious, and even, old - among many others. I believe that the writer was trying for the meaning to be "better".

[Tdol]

You could also simply say 'teaching children values'.