The public outcry for a return to moral education in our schools
has raised more dust than it's dispelled. Building upon his
provocative ideas in On Becoming Responsible, Michael Pritchard
clears the air with a sensible plan for promoting our children's
moral education through the teaching of reasonableness.
Pritchard contends that children have a definite but frequently
untapped capacity for reasonableness and that schools in a
democratic society must make the nurturing of that capacity one of
their primary aims, as fundamental to learning as the development
of reading, writing, and math skills. Reasonableness itself, he
shows, can be best cultivated through the practice of philosophical
inquiry within a classroom community. In such an environment,
children learn to work together, to listen to one another, to build
on one another's ideas, to probe assumptions and different
perspectives, and ultimately to think for themselves.
Advocating approaches to moral education that avoid mindless
indoctrination and timid relativism, Pritchard neither preaches nor
hides behind abstractions. He makes liberal use of actual classroom
dialogues to illustrate children's remarkable capacity to engage in
reasonable conversation about moral concepts involving fairness,
cheating, loyalty, truthtelling, lying, making and keeping
promises, obedience, character, and responsibility. He also links
such discussions to fundamental concerns over law and moral
authority, the roles of teachers and parents, and the relationship
between church and state.
Pritchard draws broadly and deeply from the fields of philosophy
and psychology, as well as from his own extensive personal
experience working with children and teachers. The result is a rich
and insightful work that provides real hope for the future of our
children and their moral education.
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