Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of one's partisan leanings, we at Harvard ought to take special note of Bush's argument for moral education: "Yes, we want our children to be smart and successful, but even more, we want them to be good and kind and decent. Yes, our children must learn how to make a living. But even more, they must learn how to live and what to love...
This is not to say that I find myself incapable of distinguishing right from wrong or cannot identify any moral code worthy of my adherence. I have my own reasonably consistent system of values which govern my beliefs. In the ethical realm, I pretty much know what I should and shouldn't do. For the comfort of that certainty I have my parents to thank. For my more significant discomfort at the prospect of life's deeper choices, I cannot help but feel that, at least partially, I have Harvard to blame...
...pins are pummeled for another round. And after gathering to watch the video figure do another dance, this time accented by a flashing red "\ ," the unfazed Putnam continues with assurances that he is not passing a moral judgment on solo bowlers...
...productiveness of togetherness can be seen, for example, in the way students perform better if their parents are involved in the educational process, and in the correlation between a low crime rate and whether neighbors know each other's names. Using this latter example to make a distinction between moral judgment and practical evaluation, Putnam says, "it's not that it's a moral responsibility to know your neighbor's first name. It's that if nobody knows anybody else, crime goes...
...Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice...