Excerpt from Lessons on Morals: Arranged for Grammar Schools, High Schools, and Academies
It is sometimes urged that with the innate impulse to duty and the intuitive idea of obligation, the "unconscious" ethical influences of the schools afford all the moral training that pupils should receive.
If perfect conditions existed, this theory might hold, but in many schools there is not that ideal excellence necessary to make such influences impressive, and it is doubtful if in any school there are not found children who lack the innate impulse and are thus impervious to this kind of moral training.
It is also claimed that the conduct of pupils furnishes abundant opportunities for concrete instruction in duty, and that it should be used for this purpose.
While it may be possible for a discreet and skillful teacher to turn the experiences of school to good account, the personal element involved oftentimes induces harm that overbalances any good accomplished. Moreover, such instruction is haphazard and irregular.
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