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Welcome
to SEE NEWS! This
first newsletter published by The School for
Ethical Education (SEE) is intended to inform
educators, parents, and community members of
current trends, events, and resources available
to those promoting ethical communities and
character development. SEE’s mission is to
promote "ethics in action"
for the creation of positive character and the
advancement of responsible and caring
communities. With this newsletter, SEE’s
goal is to inform and encourage others to join us
in the building of ethical communities both small
and large. We welcome your participation in the
growing movement of character education. Character education as
defined by Dr. Thomas Lickona,
Director of the Center for the 4th and
5th Rs is, "The deliberate
proactive effort to develop good character and to
teach right from wrong. It assumes right and
wrong does exist and that there is an objective
moral standard which transcends time, culture and
individual choice." Objective standards
are recognized to include: respect,
responsibility, honesty, and caring. SEE promotes
this definition in its courses and workshops as
well as integrating the instruction of social and
emotional skills which allow ethical behavior to
be demonstrated.
SEE was founded
in 1995 by John Winthrop Wright
as a nonprofit school. Mr. Wright was also the
Chairman and CEO of Wright
Investors’ Service, a privately
held, international investment management and
advisory firm in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Mr.
Wright’s timely founding of SEE coincides
with the education reform movement’s
recognition of positive student character as
critical to the success of any academic program.
Positive character development is integrated into
the goals of all SEE activities. Mr.
Wright’s vision for school improvement
focused on expanding opportunities for teachers
and students to learn how ethics in action
creates character©. This phrase became the
school’s motto and recognizes the power of
positive ethics in the creation of character. The
core ethical concepts Mr. Wright desired to
promote include: fairness, respect,
responsibility, caring, justice, honesty,
courtesy, citizenship, and the principles of the
Golden Rule. SEE currently provides
post-secondary courses and workshops for teachers
and  parents to advance ethical behavior in
schools and communities.
With Mr.
Wright’s passing in the spring of 1996, SEE
is now sustained by the generous support of Wright
Investors’ Service, The John
& Mildred Wright Foundation, tuition
fees, and donors interested in promoting ethics
in action.
(Pictured:
Mr. & Mrs. John Winthrop Wright)
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