Schools are like small communities of little people where children learn to deal with real-life scenarios and develop life skills necessary for their debut in society. Children learn by example, and what better example of society is there than a school? Schools must take responsibility for the ethics they impart to the child as this will affect that child's subsequent actions as a member of society. Eleanor Roosevelt discussed the importance of promoting good citizenship in students in her essay "Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education" because students use school as an example to emulate society. He writes: "The practical side of good citizenship is most successfully developed in school because in miniature one lives in a society, and the conditions and problems of the larger society are more easily reproduced, encountered and solved" (Roosevelt). Moral education also impacts government. Carl Becker, a distinguished historian, highlighted some conditions necessary for the success of a democratic government in his essay "The Ideal Democracy". One of the conditions for the success of a democracy requires citizens to possess certain virtues and skills, such as rationality and goodwill (Becker 152). The truth of this statement becomes startling when one thinks back to King and his example of Talmadge as an educated governor who holds office and exercises a