“How can a teacher nurture and form character,” he asked, “and at the same time be neutral?” After all, “there is no neutral education that is not governed by a spirit of its own.
Often, the aims of a “neutral” education more or less favor a continuation of the status quo, a decidedly unneutral situation.Ī variety of thinkers from diverse philosophical traditions have come to this conclusion.Ībraham Kuyper, a Christian politician in the Netherlands during the early 1900s said, The popular idea that there can be a morally neutral education is an urban legend. What role do ethics and morality play in education?Įthics and morality play a substantial, unavoidable role in education.
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