Moral dilemma

• Autores: Christian Miller
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3040, 2015, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It is a common refrain down the ages: the young of today lack the backbone of earlier generations. In the UK, education secretary Nicky Morgan is ploughing L3.5 million into efforts to instill characteristics such as grit, resilience and self-control in state-school pupils, and millions more have been pledged for military cadet units in schools, partly to bolster such traits. Across the Atlantic, the US has long invested in character education. Here, Miller examines the attempts to bolster virtuous traits in the young are on the rise and argues that no one knows whether they actually work.