Teachers find it difficult to foster binding civic values amid these debilitating time-wars with crazed rushings about frantic parents and overbooked kids. We are a democracy, so specific civic values include the right to vote, the right to freely assemble and choose your own religion, and political freedom. » Ten civic values could include justice, freedom, equality, diversity, authority, privacy, due process, property, participation, truth, patriotism, human rights, rule of law, tolerance, mutual assistance, self restraint and self respect. Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930); the literature on teaching civics and civic virtues is enormous and growing, just compare the 1619 Project and civics material available at Real Clear Politics. — Dan McCaslin is the author of Stone Anchors in Antiquity and has written extensively about the local backcountry.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2022 22:16 UTC