A New Era in Humane Education: How Troubling Youth Trends and a Call for Character Education Are Breathing New Life into Efforts to Educate Our Youth About The Value of All Life

Authors

Lydia S. Antoncic

Author Details

Lydia S. Antoncic, president and founder, Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers.

First Page

183

Abstract

The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then to learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it—at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way societies change.

Recommended Citation

Lydia S. Antoncic, A New Era in Humane Education: How Troubling Youth Trends and a Call for Character Education Are Breathing New Life into Efforts to Educate Our Youth About The Value of All Life, 9 Animal L. Rev. 183 (2003).
Available at: https://lawcommons.lclark.edu/alr/vol9/iss1/7