“Don’t Teach Them What to Think, But How to Think” — Public-school educators are often told not to teach their values, that since they are public servants, they should be open to all value systems in the classroom, not imposing their value systems on the children. The phrase that often accompanies this idea is “Don’t teach them what to think, but…

Most people think that values should not be taught. This is not something that divides the political aisle. This is not something that is on one side of the theist-atheist debate. All — red, blue, theist, atheist — agree with the statement “Values should not be taught.” There is a…