Standards

Standards are important. Why have we lowered ours as a society?

‘Whether character can be taught is an age-old question; usually we refer to its being built. West Point does not pretend its cadets are immune from the normal temptations of our culture. After all, they come from the same towns and high schools other universities draw from. The difference is that at West Point, words such as duty, honor and country are spoken without irony—and a scandal is a scandal because behavior is still measured against standards’

Wall St Journal of 1/5/10 - By WILLIAM MCGURN – ‘A Salute to West Point - The school tries to build a military led by officers of character’