Answering the Virtuecrats.
What K-12 administrator has not been frustrated by the rhetoric of William Bennett
For other people named William Bennett, see William Bennett (disambiguation).
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is a American conservative pundit and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. , William Kirkpatrick William Kirkpatrick may refer to: - William Kirkpatrick (New York politician) (1769–1832), a United States Representative from New York.
- William Sebring Kirkpatrick (1844–1932), a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
and others who argue that if public schools would do a better job of teaching virtues and morality, the putative American cultural decline could be reversed? Answering the Virtuecrats by Robert Nash Known as "Nasty, " Robert A. Nash played football for Rutgers College's 1914 All-America list in his junior season and went on to a superb 10-year professional career. In 1921, he was traded by Akron to Buffalo in the first such NFL transaction and later had the distinction of promises a rebuttal rebuttal n. evidence introduced to counter, disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or a presumption, or responsive legal argument. .
Nash, a professor at the University of Vermont, draws heavily on his teaching experiences in applied ethics and moral education. He begins with an incisive analysis of the shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw.
Shortcomings may also be: - Shortcomings (SATC episode), an episode of the television series Sex and the City
of today's character educators, who he categorizes as neo-classicists because of their longing for a return to the traditional virtues of Western civilization. He exposes the hypocrisy of those who clamor for a moral curriculum they cannot define. Nash reinforces many educators' beliefs that the intellectual underpinnings of the character educators are an inch deep and a mile wide.
At the core, this book is about talking our differences. All educators, K-12 or college, would benefit from reading Nash's guidelines for moral conversation. Although the author's prose is arcane and his practice of making points through sample conversations with his students is distracting, he has written an honest book that is a testament to his dedication to democratic dialogue.
(Answering the Virtuecrats: A Moral Conversation on Character Education, by Robert J. Nash, Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Ave., New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y. 10027, 1997, 208 pp., $18.36 softcover)
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