In the modern history of Mexico, for example, a big landmark was the introduction, 15 years ago, of text-books that were a bit less anti-American.Many states still see history teaching, and the inculcation of foundation myths, as a strategic imperative; others see it as an exercise in teaching children to think for themselves.
In the past Mr Pfeffer has railed against the "inculcation and acceptance of economic language, assumptions and theory" at business schools.
Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, writes in the same journal that Mr Ghoshal "if anything understates the potential downside to the inculcation and acceptance of economic language, assumptions and theory".
The main features of education policy, developed in the late 1930s, remained in force after the war: the orientation of all kinds of schooling and training to the paramount necessities of the economic system; the inculcation of communist discipline and Soviet patriotic attitudes; and finally a rigid control of the whole educational system by party and state administration.
More important in the long run, confessionalism promoted a social drive, also long under way, toward the inculcation of discipline and order in public and private as well as in religious and civic affairs.
These beliefs, together with the inculcation of respect for the Imperial line and the teaching of absolute faith according to which all problems beyond human capability were turned over to kami exercised great influence on modern Shintō doctrines.
6. Art is not instruction or oratory: it is not circumscribed and limited by service to any practical purpose whatever, whether this be the inculcation of a particular philosophical, historical or scientific truth, or the advocacy of a particular way of feeling and the action corresponding to it.
Civil religion identifies gods and tutelary benefactors to assist with that great aim, and its successful inculcation is supposed to help maintain stability, order, and prosperity for the country.
Should moral education focus on students' character rather than on either the inculcation of particular beliefs and values or the development of the ability to think well about moral matters and endeavour to produce particular traits, such as honesty and sensitivity?
But if so, they will be of that class of people whose desire to believe in fairies is so strong, so rooted in psychological need or shaping by (for example) inculcations in childhood, that they cannot bring themselves, or allow themselves, to think rationally (proportionally, fitting grounds to hypothesis) about their conviction.
Yet another idea popular with consequentialists is to move from consequentialism as a theory that directly assesses acts to consequentialism as a theory that directly assesses rules or character-trait inculcation and assesses acts only indirectly by reference to such rules (or character-traits) (Alexander 1985).
