Sunday, June 29, 2008

"Is character education the answer?"

to the question;

Is there a fundamental approach that will provide
dividends in every aspect of public school education?
Yes, it is.

"Virtue and vice will not grow together in a great degree,
but they will grow where they are planted, and when one has
taken root, it is not easily supplanted by the other.
The great art of correcting mankind consists in prepossessing
the mind with good principles."
--- Noah Webster


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Charactor Counts and Charactor Education in general can be fun innovaive, and get kids to think about right and wrong.
Problem is, at APS it is a funding money-maker. After they collect $$, then they don't care about the program anymore, until it's time for a review, or to collect the funding again.
Teachers and students are expected to be candid, hard-working, fair, honest and law-obeying. However, the teacher's bosses on up don't seem to be accountable for anything other than making budget and keeping the good name of the school intact (and sports/awards!).
..And people wonder why there's an "us against them" attitude in so many schools.