A Transcendent Business Education for the 21stCentury

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This article challenges educators about helping students in their intellectual and moral development. Certainly, there is enough blame to generously blanket many groups. Substantive culpability goes to parents who failed to teach their children the basic decencies of being human. Educators and administrators at the elementary, middle, and high school levels can be blamed as well. They bemoan the rash of classroom cheating but have chosen not to curb it. Schools relinquish their responsibility by minimizing the problem. Truthfully, administrative reticence is unrelated to the perpetrators' age or lack of maturity. It is the fear of costly legal action that quells the deterrence of dishonesty--in a litigious society, students who are too young to know better have parents old enough to call a lawyer. Of course, business professors deserve some blame. Business professors promulgate a worldview that facilitates questionable decisions. They create brilliant tacticians who know how to play the end game of wealth creation, where financial success is defined without transcendent responsibilities. But in search of a personal or corporate gain, proponents of this instruction aid and abet physical, psychological, and spiritual toxins for the students, the organizations they work for, and society at large.

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