Document Type
Issue Area Two
Abstract
The teaching of values in public schools: Which values? Whose values? These are intriguing questions. Even more intriguing than the answer, is the question itself. Is it not a serious indictment of our culture that we would even have to ask, much less debate, which values we must teach to our children?
A series of "not-guilty-because" verdicts in highly publicized court cases in the past year indicate that we as a society have lost the ability to differentiate between right and wrong as well as the moral backbone to call it wrong. Each time, the jury found an excuse for the defendant's anti-social behavior. It wasn't really the defendants' fault.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
2
First Page
89
Last Page
91
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
Smit, Samona Joy
(1994)
"To Teach Values, We Must First Believe and Then Model Them Ourselves,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 24.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss2/24
