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the system we hsve built to teach them.
Schools In our grandparents day handled the Issue of student values differently. While, today, students are exposed to various “value systems” and allowed to form their own life philosophies, ftudents at the turn of the century were taught one value system. An example would be the “Ethics” course taught at Bridgewater Academy in the early 1900's. The textbook for the course was titled, “Elements of Morals”, and was published by the American Book Company. Chapters included, among others, duties toward human life, the property of others, charity and self-sacrifice, and duties to the State, self and family. The preface described the book, published in 1884, as “a system of morals setting forth man’s duties and the application thereto of the moral law.”
Although some readers would, without doubt, contend that such a course should be returned to a school’s curriculum, it remains that some recent court rulings on parts of our constitution allow the teaching of value and theological systems if exposure is given to a variety of views and the student is not pressed to choose a specified one for his own “value system”.
In essence, then, it appears that instruction in our public schools is a more democratic procedure than was apparently true in generations past. While it may be true that such changes in educational procedure has resulted in an increased number of vocal and militant students for “social change”, perhaps we can all learn from the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long at reason is left to combat it.”
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Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Edwards of Amissville accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Wigenton of Washington, D.C. to Reading, Pa. where they were weekend guests of Mrs. James Jackson and visited Mr. Jackson who is hospitalized.
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Jackson of Washington, D.C. were
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