Running head: Ethics and School

My philosophy of education maintains that a liberal education in mathematics, science, history, and literature cultivates reason and knowledge, developing the ability for a student to make practical choices and most importantly, the moral sensibilities of the student. The ethics of the school is essential. The student first is to become absorbed and disciplined in his own American heritage. The teacher must first internalize eternal values. Only then can the school become the place envisioned by the Founding Fathers, one that elevates morality. The profoundest theme in Western civilization, the fundamental worth of the individual, a being with the capacity of determining right and wrong, is engrained in our history. The Vornberg text says in Chapter Nine that the higher image of school leaders is outside of politics. Frank W. Lutz and Rex A. Carr dispel the myth that ethics and politics cannot be mixed. “Nothing can or should be further from the truth in the American democracy…It was the intent of the founding fathers that the American Democracy be founded on the principle of the common good…Far down among the definitions (of politics) and one of eight offered are the words artful and dishonest…Many American