Whatever Happened to Ethics?; Huffington Post, 4/13/16

Tom Allon, Huffington Post; Whatever Happened to Ethics? :

"It’s the underpinning of all knowledge and behavior, yet no one teaches ethics anymore. For the last five decades we have seen the waning of civics classes in high schools and ethics classes in colleges. In the corporate world, learning ethics has become an anachronistic notion...

Ethics is something that was taught in ancient Greece and was once neatly woven into our secondary education system. Ethics classes, like civics classes, are now rarely found on the high school level in this country. Isn’t it time to resurrect this again?...

So where do we go from here? I am a firm believer that mandatory ethics classes for all professions are one smart route. All those involved in government - from staffers to lobbyists to consultants to elected leaders - need to take continuing ethical education each year. Lawyers and doctors must do ongoing training to keep their licenses, so why not those in the political world?...

It’s time for ethics classes for our leaders.

And for our children. Perhaps as early as pre-K so we can ensure the next generation behaves better than this one."