Lifeline: Moral Education Project

Moral education means different things to different people. To those of us who have worked on this Moral Education Project, moral education is concerned with how people actually live, how their behaviour affects others, and whether their behaviour makes a happier, healthier, fuller life possible.
We began by trying to discover in which situations secondary-school children did not know what to do or how to proceed. From a study of eight hundred pupils' wants and expectations we learned that our society appeared to them not as permissive but as restrictive and demanding. To some, clothes hair and friendships seemed among the few areas in which they could still exercise autonomy and even these were often attacked by adults.
We found that seventy percent of the pupils thought that the school should offer more pracitical help to them in looking for solutions to interpersonal problems, and should help them in carrying out the courses of action on which they had decided.