"Public Schools and Moral Education": A Review Article

Abstract

In his work Public Schools and Moral Education,1 Neil Gerald McCluskey, S. J., raises a number of questions that are concerned with the problem of moral education in the public schools. His conclusion that this problem is insoluble within the framework proposed by the philosophies of Thomas Mann, William T. Harris, and John Dewey leads him to propose the teaching of moral values in the public schools through theological sanctions by representa tives of institutional religions. Since his position would place the State in the role of supporting the propagation of the theological beliefs of specific institutional religions, it involves a change in the traditional relation of Church and State. Therefore some of the