Since 2014, British schools have been required to ‘actively promote’ the value of ‘mutual respect’ to the children in their care. This is relatively unproblematic: liberals are agreed that good citizenship education will involve teaching mutual respect. However, there is disagreement over how ‘respect’ should be understood and what it should imply for norms of respectful classroom discussion. Some political liberals have indicated that when engaging in discussion in the classroom, students should provide only neutral reasons to defend their views. This paper provides a number of arguments against this claim. For example, I argue that this norm relies on a distorted understanding of what it is to respect others and that it stifles the development of civic and epistemic virtue in the next generation of citizens. Even from within the perspective of political liberalism, there are good reasons to favour critical discussion of non-neutral reasons. Education policy should therefore accord greater priority to discussion of students’ actual motivating reasons than to discussion constrained by a norm of neutral discourse.

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尊重教育：反对中立话语作为尊重课堂讨论的规范

自 2014 年以来，英国学校被要求“积极宣传”他们照顾的孩子“相互尊重”的价值观。这是相对没有问题的：自由主义者一致认为，良好的公民教育将涉及相互尊重。然而，对于如何理解“尊重”以及它对尊重课堂讨论的规范应该意味着什么，存在分歧。一些政治自由主义者表示，在课堂上进行讨论时，学生应该只提供中立的理由来捍卫自己的观点。本文提供了许多反对这一主张的论据。例如，我认为这种规范依赖于对什么是尊重他人的扭曲理解，并且它扼杀了下一代公民的公民美德和认知美德的发展。即使从政治自由主义的角度来看，也有充分的理由支持对非中立原因进行批判性讨论。因此，教育政策应该更加重视讨论学生的实际动机，而不是受中性话语规范限制的讨论。