Two more Rs

摘要

How to teach children right from wrong? In an impassioned book, Stephen Law argues, as Kant did, that moral consciousness is founded on the rock of human reason, and that children need to be taught from the start to think critically about moral judgments. For many readers of this newspaper, descendants of the Enlightenment and rationalists all, such a view might seem self-evident. But Mr Law has some powerful enemies to fight, and some interesting intellectual distinctions to draw, in the war for children's minds.