Document Type
Issue Area Two
Abstract
John Merrow stated my position on the teaching of values very well in the April, 1994, issue of Teacher Magazine: "Schools shouldn't be battlegrounds over values. In fact, they should be the meeting ground, the common ground. Schools should be helping parents raise children with strong, positive values" (p. 39). Of course, that statement leads directly to the most classic "ya-but" question connected with the values controversy-whose values? Amatai Etzioni commented in the November, 1993, issue of Educational Leadership (cited in Berreth & Scherer), "Most people feel that this question is such a strong counter argument that after they ask it, they can walk away fiwn the discussion" (p. 12). I've been involved in several such discussions and know Etzioni is right in his view of the effect of that question. I think it's time to say, "That's a great question. Let's see if we can figure it out!"
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
2
First Page
60
Last Page
63
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1994 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gentry, Lynne Kail
(1994)
"The Teaching of Values in the Public Schools: Not Whose, Not Which, but How,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 17.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss2/17
