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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...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: An Argument for Moral Education | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: An Argument for Moral Education | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Fifteen Hottest Harvard Profs | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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