In the intervening 150 years, character education has taken on various guises: moral education, virtues education, values education, non-cognitive skills, spiritual, moral, cultural and social education, to name a few.
Probably Gilligan has been more effective than the academic debates of moral philosophers, but one way or another, there is now a growing movement towards virtues education, amongst both academics (Carr 1999) and teachers in the classroom.
We longed to expand the initiative and add other elements, such as community building and service, virtues education and training on women's rights and gender-based violence.
"Bush's virtue on education is simply that he talks about it, which is more than Republicans have done for 20 years," said Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster.
"Remarkably it seems that although our genomes are fragile, our society is robust almost entirely by virtue of education, which allow strengths to be rapidly distributed to all members".
He arranged a contract with Ibrahim whereby he guaranteed Esma's virtue and education and Ibrahim promised not to arrange a marriage for her before she turned 18 (many Roma girls were then married in their early teens).
For all my successes, I had been unable to see a whole swath of humanity, people who were different from me by virtue of education, or ability, or wealth, or culture.
(To see that Plato is acutely aware of these implications, one only needs to look at what the Republic has to say about virtue and education).
Prudence, which is the ability to choose good and avoid evil, intellectual contemplation, moral and political virtue, friendship, education and character (all essential elements in Aristotle's ethics) are subsumed in Augustine's moral theology under the command to love God.
