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...point tends to be democracy within the church, Rome is concerned first and foremost with religious dogma. According to one Vatican official, U.S. Catholics are heavily influenced by their culture and media, which, to the Pope, create a "society of immediate gratification," the exact opposite of John Paul's ethic of "service and commitment." A final irritant is American Catholics' penchant for airing disputes in public...
Wagner and Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones must deal with a minefield of conflicting views. The city's sex-education curriculum is described as "value neutral" but, like many other school systems' courses, is actually based on a generalized secular ethic of caring and respect for others. Parents dissatisfied with the version of the city curriculum served up in their district can pull their children out of particular classes by informing the principal. The program is sometimes popular, as it is at P.S. 42, but the effort to accommodate everyone is unacceptable to many. Last month the board of education mandated...
Education Secretary William Bennett supports that kind of concern. His fear, he told a New York City audience last month, is that instead of a clear ethic of right and wrong, sex-ed students are frequently exposed to a hodgepodge of "feel-good philosophy." Bennett accepts sex education "provided that people do not try to make it value free." He would require instruction to include a message on abstinence. "Such courses should take place only if the community wants them and the parents are involved and know what is going to be taught...
...Lawrence Lindsey, assistant professor of economics at Harvard: "A middle-class person is someone who expects to be self-reliant, unlike the upper class with its unearned wealth or the lower class with its dependency on society. Far from declining, the middle class is bigger than ever, and its ethic is alive and well...
...addition, Brophy recommended that Americans take a greater interest in education and the productivity of the work force, while labor and management must attempt to reestablish the work ethic...