Last week, I talked about character education, and whether or not it's possible to teach kids self-control and patience in a school setting. I discussed a charter school in Washington, DC, wherein teaching "responsible behaviors" is part of the daily curriculum, and wondered aloud whether such instruction was a school's job, or the parents' job at home.
A lot of readers replied that I needed to engage my students better or provide more opportunities to connect meaningfully to everything from English instruction to the running of the school. While all of these are good ideas, they're not connected to the question I'm exploring here. What I'm trying to ask is whether character education--the umbrella term for self-control, responsible behaviors, tolerance of delayed gratification, patience, hard work, etc.--can be taught in schools, and secondly, is it the role of schools to do so?
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