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Article: The Education of Good Character.
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 15, 1999
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Though a new character-education movement is gaining strength, experts say the workout that will build its muscle can be found in teachers who are willing to embrace it.
Professor Tom Lickona, who heads the Center for the Fourth and Fifth R's at the State University of New York at Cortland, says he came by his interest in character education through a natural convergence of events. In graduate school during the late 1960s, Lickona's area of concentration was the moral development of children, he tells Insight. In the meantime, character and behavior in the public schools "began the slide down the ethical tubes we're all familiar with."
Lickona, who had ...