"ethics lesson" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a moral lesson, or an occasion devoted to teaching people about morality, such as a lesson in school. For example, "I learned an important ethics lesson during my first year of university."
He praised Jesse Winchester, whose honeyed melancholy echoes in Mr. Lovett's own vocal style, when he played Mr. Winchester's enigmatic ethics lesson, "Isn't That So".
A shocker in its day (it was banned in Boston), "The Children's Hour" is basically a sustained ethics lesson, delivered via some laboriously wrought dramatic machinery.
I am an ethics professor from California on sabbatical in New York, working on a book; this was a wonderful ethics lesson.
And when Ms. Saujani, a former hedge fund lawyer, asked Ms. James about her campaign fund-raising, Ms. James responded, "I don't think I'll take any ethics lesson from a Wall Street lawyer".
If, as Robert Prentice says ("An Ethics Lesson for Business Schools," Op-Ed, Aug. 20), business professors tend to "view the law as an impediment" and "impart to their students an impression that the law exists simply to be manipulated or evaded," we will undoubtedly continue to see a stream of ethical lapses and abuses in corporate America.
Lay's shameful fall from grace should provide an ethics lesson for tomorrow's corporate leaders, as apparently this generation missed that day of class.
"He should not be giving ethics lessons to anybody else".
His is an odd sort of schooling, consisting mostly of indirect ethics lessons accomplished by turning the boy into various animals: a perch, an ant, a badger.
"This is like hiring Martha Stewart to give stock ethics lessons," said Peter J. Schmitt, the Republican minority leader in the County Legislature, who revealed the situation.
"Bob Torricelli is the last person to be giving ethics lessons to anyone," said the spokesman, Matthew Miller, referring to an ethics scandal that drove the former senator out of a race for re-election in 2002.
The Iceland model provides an informative counterexample that holds key ethics lessons for similar ventures.
