How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education
What goes by the name of character education nowadays is, for the most part, a collection of exhortations and extrinsic inducements designed to make children work harder and do what they're told. Even when other values are also promoted -- caring or fairness, say -- the preferred method of instruction is tantamount to indoctrination. The pointi is to drill students in specific behaviors rather than to engage them in deep, critical reflection about certain ways of being.
