Moral Values and Civic Education: An Essay on "The Interrelation of Aims"

Eliot's general proposition is simple enough: The three aims of education--to enable boys and girls to make a living, to equip them to play their parts as citizens of a democracy, and to enable them to develop all latent powers and faculties of their natures presupposed underlying views about the worth of vocations, the virtues of citizenship, and value of a way of life.