[Glossary] Education and Morality

1. (Clark 1988, 11): "If there is any possibility that education can be productive of good, that possibility depends on the inclusion of morality in the curriculum. But what is morality? How are moral norms discovered and known? Do they or do they not require a theological foundation? The present volume, as its title suggests, asserts the need of a theological basis for morality; but the sole point intended at this juncture is that a knowledge of child psychology, including of necessity a view of the origin and nature of man, the relation between education and government, and the inclusion or exclusion of morals and theology, requires an intelligent educator to have a rather well-developed philosophy or world-view."

The possibility of education being productive of good in a society depends on including the teaching of morality in school curriculums.

Morality in turn needs a theological basis.


Reference:

Clark, Gordon H. 1988. A Christian Philosophy of Education. 2nd ed. Jefferson, Maryland: The Trinity Foundation.

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