Character Education Isn't About Fitting Kids Into Little Squares

Teacher Jose Vilson used to think of character education as "the positive things about schools that concentrate on the socio-emotional as well as the academic sides of students." That's not what he's seeing play out in classrooms. Instead character education's become about adults who "still think children should fit in their little squares, implicitly creating a generation of children who obey, never take ownership, and never think for themselves."