What kind of moral and ethics education does make sense at school or at the workplace?
Sinikka: Moral education might sound weird in the Finnish ears. When I found moral education courses at Harvard Graduate School 1976-77 Catalogue these headings surprised me. Coming from a Lutheran country and having just experienced quite stormy years of student radicalism with its atheistic connotations, the courses looked suspicious. I was more interested in history teaching, mass media and cultural anthropology. When I look back to my studies at Harvard, it was a big mistake not to take those moral education courses, because quite soon I was confronted by the ethical issues of the teaching of American history. Between the years 1965 -1975 a remarkable educational revolution happened at schools and at the universities in the United States in regards to the content and the methods of teaching. Ethical questioning was one of the leading themes of this upheaval. Americans, especially young people, questioned the policies of their government. The war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal
