It is true, of course, that delivering effective character education will play a role in raising students’ aspirations and outcomes, but this is not the whole story, says Dr Mary Bousted

Damian Hinds recently gave a speech promoting “character education”. This is not a new concept.

After the First World War the political class became gravely worried about the soldiers who returned from the battlefields unwilling or unable to believe in a God who saw all things (if that was the case, why did he not see the horrors of the conflict and find a way to stop the carnage)?

Revolution was in the air across Europe. The upper classes, who had most to lose, feared that the fever might infect the English working class. So the search was on to find a way to give all English citizens a stake in their country.

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