Amazingly, implications of the obvious are ignored. For if we are not sensitizing and educating young people to take their places in a moral community, we are shortchanging them. They need to be morally strong. They need to know when and how to speak up and speak out. We are failing to teach our children the lessons of the Holocaust.
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.