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Edwin J. Delattre & William J. Bennett Winter 1978 THE belief that moral values should be taught to young Americans in the schools is at least as old as the nation itself. Thomas Jefferson’s Bill For the More General Diffusion of Knowledge argued for an educational system that would fortify citizens with moral probity to resist the schemes of the enemies of liberty.
"TO EDUCATE A PERSON in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." A century ago Teddy Roosevelt reminded Americans of this ancient truth, and sometime in the past half-century we started to forget it. Students must be left free, it was said, to choose their own morals. The clarification of values, not the imposition of them, was the task of schools. After Columbine and too many similar incidents, however, such words ring hollow.
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