Schools and colleges may say that they simply impart knowledge and don’t mess around with values. In today’s Martin Center article, D. P. Curtin argues against that notion.

John Dewey, the famous education theorist, advocated value-neutral schools. Curtin writes,

Historically, according to this view, teachers should not shape the moral life of their students’ interiority, but only transmit the fundamental and pertinent information. As a rule, they should present competing perspectives........

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