96. Moral Education in the Academy: Optional or Necessary? (2004)

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Moral Education in the Academy: Optional or Necessary? November 5, 2004 MacLaurin Institute Lecture University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN READING: “The University’s Responsibility for Moral Guidance,” by Dallas Willard. The Real Issue, #1, March 2004. “The Aims of Education” by John J. Mearsheimer, Philosophy and Literature, 1998, vol 22. “The Disparity Between Intellect and Character,” by Robert Coles. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol 42, #4 (Sept 1995). The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality, by Julie Reuben. From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William James, by Edward Reed “Aim Low: Confusing Democratic Values with Academic Ones Can Easily Damage the Quality of Education,” by Stanley Fish, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 16, 2003, Vol. 49, Issue. 36, page C. 5.  The book Fish is commenting on is Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, Jossey-Bass, 2003. The MacLaurin Institute is one of the oldest university-affiliated Christian study centers in the USA. It was rebranded as Anselm House in 2016. Dallas Wil