ABSTRACT
Character education has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the field of moral education. It is now clearly dominant. The character program is twofold: to nurture moral virtues and to promote moral literacy-the basic knowledge of right, wrong, and value. Six methods are key: (1) instructing students directly in certain basic values and ideals, (2) establishing behavioral codes and enforcing them, (3) telling stories with moral lessons, (4) modelling desirable traits and values, (5) holding up moral exemplars in history, literature, and current-day communities, extolling their traits, (6) providing in-school and community outreach opportunities (service projects) through which students can exercise good traits and pursue good values.
