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According to author Scott B. Rae in Doing the Right Thing, our culture is in an ethical mess because we've neglected moral training and education. This book proposes that there is such a thing as moral truth, that it can be known, and that it can be put into practice. Looking specifically at the areas of medicine, the marketplace, public life, education, and the family, Rae shows how foundational...

A third strategy of the culture to produce good people is education. We commonly assume that if people are not doing what is right, it must be because they are uninformed and in need of education. Underlying this assumption is the notion that if people know the right thing to do, they will do it. But just as there is no inherent connection between success and being a good person, there is no link between being educated and being a good person. D. L. Moody once said, “If you take someone who steals
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