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Children Must be Taught to Tell Right from Wrong
William Kilpatrick

Many of today’s young people have adifficult time seeing any moral dimension (道德層面) to their actions. There are a numberof reasons why that’s true, but none more prominent than a failed system ofeducation that eschews (回避) teaching children the traditionalmoral values that bind Americans together as a society and a culture. Thatfailed approach, called “decision-making,” was introduced in schools 25 yearsago. It tells children to decide for themselves what is right and what iswrong. It replaced “character education. (品格教育)” Character education didn’t askchildren to reinvent the moral wheel (浪費時間重新發明早已存在的道德標準); instead, it encouraged them topractice habits of courage, justice and self-control.
In the 1940s, when a character educationapproach prevailed, teachers worried about students chewing gum; today theyworry about robbery and rape.