ABSTRACT
As in every school of thought, moral education coincides entirely with the class morality which guides the school. In France, where special classes in ethics have been introduced and where there are textbooks of morality in use, the educational ideal consists in those bourgeois virtues which permeate the mind and soul of the French middle-class. In one French textbook on morality, for example, there are hardly any “ethical standards". The basic feature of moral education is found in that aspect of truth that distinguishes the ethical outlook which is being created right before our eyes. Moral behavior will always be that which is associated with the free choice of social forms of behavior. One must take care that the forms assumed by self-governance not turn into a mere replica of adult behavioral patterns, and that interest in artificial formalities does not kill the vital sense of community in the child.
