... and encourage students to become ethical people - people of good character. The classroom is a professional environment for learning, and character must be explicitly taught therein. Teachers can use the classroom both as a forum for direct instruction and as an opportunity to lead by example. Every student spends more than 180 days each year in school. Since they are there to learn, it would be wrong to allow this opportunity for moral instruction to slip away. Children naturally look to their school to provide them with important knowledge. It is all too easy for children to assume that information not taught in school cannot be very important. While it is recognised that parents have a responsibility to teach values, in our society, they can use all the help they can get. So in practical terms how can we teach children to be moral? (2) Within the classroom we ...

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