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Date Posted: 14:56:58 03/28/07 Wed
Author: Miriam Dolin
Subject: Re: Character Education and Culture/Government
In reply to: Lauren McAdams 's message, "Re: Character Education and Culture/Government" on 07:03:50 03/28/07 Wed

I think this is a really interesting discussion. I agree with Tish in that our country does seem to like to impose our values on others. But I also agree with Lauren that some students need Character Education because they don't get it any where else. BUT I think after character education, people MUST participate in some values clarification synthesizing and "working" with the information received from character education. Though this is slightly different, I think the principle still applies: I definitely know people who prescribe to their parents' religion, politics, whatever simply because that is what they were told at the dinner table. But when it comes time to apply those ideas (by, say voting) they have no idea what they believe. In the same vein, we cannot simply tell students what values they should hold, they need to wrestle with the ideas and discern what is important to them so that they can apply those values to decision making and daily life. (Okay, I will step off my soap box now!)

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