Good Civics Students

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Don't you see the relationships about you? Don't you see your immediate relatives living near you? You should make efforts to enhance your abilities to notice the linguistic relationships taking place side by side on the prose, that is, the realistic sentences and paragraphs.

Text:
The PATRIOT Act certainly puts a new spin on the word "search." But this is to be expected, right? After all, if the government has probable cause and a search warrant, nothing has changed, has it? As all good civics students know, the Fourth Amendment continues: "no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." (The Search, John Battelle, p.199) (The Korean version, p.312)

Dano's comments:
At kindergartens, pre-school children learn how to behave as kids. The students of social studies learn how to behave as young men and ladies, that is, how to keep manners. In the same context, the students of civics are taught how to behave as citizens, that is, to learn about the U.S. Constitution or community affairs. The statements show mutual relationships: They define each other.

It has been a sorry thing for the Korean translator to interpret the bold-typed sentence as to mean "good-natured students..." It's not about students' character. In this case, the adjective 'good' is related to one's abilities. When you say Ann is a good swimmer, you mean that Ann is good at swimming, that is, Ann swims well. In short, the bold-typed "good civics students" does not mean good-natured students but means the students who are well versed in civics problems.