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his teachers have his undivided attention. How many parents talk to their children for an hour a day? Teachers do it for a living.
And that is not to say that if the schools succeeded that they would produce generations of Jack Armstrongs. But you can bet the ranch that things would get better.
Traditionally, educating for character meant the conscious inculcation — indoctrination, if you must — of widely accepted values (in those olden times values were often called “virtues”). Those virtues, give or take a few, were honesty, loyalty, morality and courage.
The techniques of teaching virtue were varied and tested. They were occasionally unpleasant, and for that some would never forgive them. But, by and large, they worked.
For generations, Americans with educations stayed married, mowed their lawns, and honored what deserved honoring. Our schools haven’t been able to say that about
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