Abstract

Half a Century of Ethical Culture

The article focuses on ethical culture movement in the U.S. The "International Journal of Ethics," the quarterly now published at the University of Chicago, was founded to promote specialized thinking in this domain. The International Moral Education Congresses and the International Races Congress held in London in 1911 to draw attention to the highly serious world-problems arising from racial contacts, were inaugurated by the International Ethical Union. The Ethical Culture School, begun in 1878 as the first kindergarten in New York, has been a pioneer to which not only many of the progressive schools of later date but public schools all over the globe have been largely indebted. An experimental school of the same kind was started by the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture four years ago.