ABSTRACT
Most teachers (but some more than others) are in the following dilemma. They recognize that they live in a pluralist society, that is, a society that tolerates many different lifestyles with different valuations of what is good and worthwhile; they may even argue that values are ultimately a matter of taste, without objective foundation; and they may conclude that they have no right to promote one set of values rather than another, one life-style in preference to another. Indeed the emphasis is often on the pupil's freedom to choose or to make up his own mind about what is worthwhile, because the teacher does not find the promotion of a particular set of values easily defensible.
