The Moscow authorities, eager to improve morals in Russia, are considering a ban on kissing in the subway and other public places (World Briefing, Nov. 11).
Barrie's mysterious, anarchic vision becomes an improving moral fable, tinged with mawkish sentimentality.
"I'm not mature enough," he told me once, and he collected books that supposedly improved moral character.
He said a few words about creating an improved "moral climate" by force of Presidential example, and some about bettering the quality of the federal judiciary.
Its recommendations in 1987 included diversifying upper secondary education, improving moral education, encouraging greater local freedom and responsibility in developing curriculum, improving teacher training, and fostering diversity in higher education.
In her 1932 essay Oxford Street Tide, Virginia Woolf noted the "racket of van and omnibus" along the thoroughfare, and its cacophony of voices buying and selling, but decided that it all offered an improving moral lesson: "This gaudy, bustling, vulgar street reminds us that life is a struggle; that all building is perishable; that all display is vanity".
Schools are increasingly integrating character education to facilitate improved moral thinking and pro social behavior among students.
These findings may help to design effective psychological interventions aimed at improving moral identity in young adults with higher levels of cyberbullying.
As a result, many concrete applications or results suggested by original intentions and understandings may now seem absurd or highly undesirable in light of new scientific and social developments and improved moral understanding.
