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- Title
For the Record.
- Authors
F. G. J.
- Abstract
The article discusses ethical behavior as a social skill crucial to humane survival in any community and the role of formal education to develop it. There were times when responsible citizenship was the recognized consequence of education that was further empowered by every additional year of formal schooling. According to the author, the general guidelines of civism should be justice, liberty and equality. Civism can serve to denote qualities of public and private behavior that should be acquired at the end of childhood. The demands for social decency, for justice, for equality, for fair dealing, for honesty in high offices and respect for privacy can be expressed by that simple word. All of us need a faith in each other and in those to whom we assign governing responsibilities, a faith that proceeds from the decent respect for the opinions of mankind. The public school alone cannot do what all other agencies and institutions together have failed to do in the upbringing of children or the induction of youth into the affairs of the polity. It is the responsibility of each citizen to move the society towards a generous existence.
- Subjects
ETHICS; SOCIAL skills; PROFESSIONAL education; FAIRNESS; EQUALITY; PUBLIC behavior; FAITH development; PUBLIC schools; PRIVACY
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1974, Vol 75, Issue 3, p275
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article