John McC wrote:
Ursula answers: I'm made uneasy by this sentence...but can't definitively pinpoint why. I've always felt strongly that, beyond the don't take what doesn't belong to you, tell the truth, be nice to others sort of teaching, I haven't expected (or wanted) the schools to teach my children morality. And yet...I'm aware sometimes of my attempts to push or pull students towards a particular moral awareness. I feel strongly that we can't teach morality as a subject, but that we model it in the interstices of what we say and do both in and outside of the classroom. And for those students 'with ears to hear' (as an old philosophy professor of mine used to say) that can indeed be teaching.Still, to me, whose civilian higher education made little or no pretense of trying to shape my character, the statement above remains impressive.
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