Extra Credits for Existentialism Prof. Thompson Before Teaching Ethics: Stop Kidding Yourself! This paragraph pointed out couple enlightening insights as to can ethics be “taught”? However, I did not totally agree with every point that the author made. While his remark on the eager woman asking him to supervise an independent of an ethical curriculum for middle-school and high-school students is” This bright young woman earnestly believed that if people in low-income, high-crime areas would just take a couple of ethics courses, they would be less inclined to mug people and more inclined to act like the college students she knew”, I did approve of this woman’s intention. However, I did agree with him when he said” The moral challenge is simply to abide by the knowledge that we already have” It’s true that most of us already know the right and wrong, the problem lies in whether we are willing to follow what is “morally right”. On the contrary, I thought the author was wrong when he says” More knowledge is not what is needed” Because I thought that he had overlooked that fact that not “everyone” can tell right from wrong. For example, some children from low-educated parents or slum area often become gangsters. Why? Because they lack the knowledge of what should they do and what should they not do. Since their parents are usually have problem themselves, it is out of the question for them to teach their children( Besides, they usually are not able to). As a result, the only hope for them to learn to be right is through curriculums provided in school. By “telling” them the righteousness, at least the society has given them a chance to do right things. No one should devalue the importance of teaching a child acceptable behavior since they are like a white sheet of paper which would be colored by whichever they receive from the world. This is why it’s so important to teach children moral values before they reach adulthood for people usually cling to what they think...