Values comprise the core of a good education. We avoid trying to teach values in schools. There are no standards except for those relating to tests and credentials. Yet, in the 1996 Survey of American Political Culture , a majority adults surveyed strongly favored teaching traditional values in public schools. The second obvious fact is that there is little appreciation of the sanctity of life.
Sanctity means more than just respect.
This, too, is not conveyed by our educational system. Yet it can be and should be. Human life is like Joseph's coat of many colors. Each subject in school reflects a facet. The tree of life starts with biology.