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The Moral Instruction of Children

by Felix Adler

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Right ideas and right habits form separate parts of moral education in the editor’s preface to Felix Adler’s The Moral Instruction of Children. Punctuality, regularity, silence, and steady work give school discipline an ethical role. The preface places these routines beside a change in educational aims: obedience gives way to conscience, self-control, and individual insight. Respect for classmates’ work, accuracy, kindness, and generosity supply practical examples of conduct that schools can encourage.

The author’s discussion of Moses shows another way to teach moral ideas through a biblical figure. Adler describes a reformer educated at Pharaoh’s court whose desert solitude gives him time to develop his ideas about freeing Hebrew slaves. He reads the burning bush as an expression of inner conviction and connects freedom with the need for moral legislation. The golden calf episode brings disappointment into this account, while Michel Angelo’s sculpture of Moses provides a further point of interpretation. These passages connect the formation of ethical purpose with the responsibilities that freedom brings.

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Felix Adler

Felix Adler was a philosopher, educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement in New York during the nineteenth century. The Essentials Of Spirituality presents his account of moral growth through obligation, self-discipline, service, and respect for the worth of other people.

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Pages
140
Language
English
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