Love looks like a hug, like an ear that will listen. Love looks like action. One person to one person to one person creating a revolution. The conference kicked off with comments by the presidents of each of the three sponsoring institutions about the role educators play in creating a civil society. Academia adds the final touch to the person who steps from the classroom to the field of work.
Moral education is an idea whose time has come.
We cannot sit and twiddle our thumbs while throngs of moral decay are burning all around us. The conference also discussed opposing opinions about the focus of moral education. For example, Julius Chambers, chancellor of NCCU, complained that more money is allocated to scientific research than to the humanities. Yet Marian Johnson-Thompson, director of Education and Biomedical Research Development at the National Institute of Environmental Heath Sciences, supported the disparity, which she said encourages the incorporation of science into the classroom. While those who attended said that the conference was a worthwhile experience, many expressed concern that the breadth of the conference sacrificed the depth.