Teaching Loyalty Within A Moral Education

How are values to be taught? Moral education would involve providing students with both instruction in the subject-matter of the academic disci plines as well as moral instruction. For example, a connection has been made since the early 1900s between democracy and education. It has been argued that the possibility of a democratic state in which people partici pate and direct political life depends upon an educated citizenry: there needs to be an informed population before choice can be intelligently exer cised. Education is credited with protecting the possibility of loyalty. It is hoped through education that a child will be protected from seeking the selfless devotion of the fanatic or terrorist or from showing the selfishness of the instrumental person who sees no greater cause than self-interest or personal freedom. Durkheim saw education as a moral enterprise in which the importance of the collective body would be affirmed. Dewey saw the educational experience as imparting moral habits that would enable a child to become self-reliant, independent, and self-directed

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