That's all changed now. I am a different person. I know a lot about something and that something is connected to social justice. And a lot of this I discovered myself. It wasn't fed to me or laid out for me to memorize.
Moral education requires more than thinking.
Judging, unlike thinking, needs the presence of others whose perspectives must be taken into consideration. It requires the imagination to put ourselves in the place of another human being. One way is by providing an education that is informed by history and tested in conversations that expand their knowledge, challenge their thinking, and ultimately lead to informed action. It is a process that demands that each of us continue to pay attention to our children for they help to develop the moral child in each of us. Margot Stern Strom is executive director of the Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation.