Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the campus turmoil of the 1960s, faculties recoiled from the idea of instructing morals. Attempting to teach students what values they should hold would respark the campus protests and violence that arose in rebellion against the Vietnam War and the way universities, attempted to control students' lives. But two movements have arisen which have placed the teaching of ethics back on higher education's agenda...
...there are important differences in orientation between these strange bedfellows. Bennett wants to see students instructed in a small set of moral values centered around Judeo-Christian, Western traditions. He demands that Universities teach courses on Christian morality and impose strict codes of behavior which strongly discourage premarital sex, drugs and drinking. They dismiss current ethical instruction, which they characterize as games about "deciding which person to throw out of the lifeboat...
...bring back the days of chapel services of strict dress codes even if they wanted to. No fair-minded college president wants to be a moral imperialist imposing his values on those less in lightened than he, Instead, mirroring the philosophy behind his undergraduate Core Curriculum, Bok wants to teach students how to think about ethical questions and problems rather than what to think...
...balance any possible Western centrism, the foreign cultures Core should be strengthened so that its courses emphasize the values of these societies, instead of attempting to teach thousands of years of history in three months. The moral reasoning Core could afford to dispose of some of the courses that do not really examine thinking about ethical questions, and to include more that do. The professional schools should also require such courses on morality (except divinity, which seems to have had a monopoly on them), rather than offering the poorly-attended electives on ethics that currently exists...
When North's tour of duty was over, he returned to Quantico to teach tactics. As an instructor, North was something of a hot dog: he wore camouflage to class, and once surprised his students by jumping on a desk and opening fire with an M16 loaded with blanks. North justified his histrionics by saying that his men must be prepared for anything. "If you screw up, you die," he told them...