"No island is a man"
We learn for ourselves and from one another. I am not debating your method for folk to learn. I am all for the lesson DO WHAT IS RIGHT because all wrong behaviour has a BAD CONSEQUENCE. I am totally against force, fear or bribery for trying to teach, educate people or rear children.
If you want the religious theme taken away call it CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE. I understand if you remove the Bhuddist word as a religious concept and look at what can be learnt from the philosophy of Buddhism it would benefit mankind.
To quote Sam Harris author of the End of Faith
"What the world needs most at this moment is a means of convincing human beings to embrace the whole of the species as their moral community. For this we need to DEVELOP an utterly nonsectarian way of talking about the full spectrum of human experience and aspiration. We need a discourse on ethics and spirituality that is every bit as unconstrained by dogma and cultural predjudice as the discourse as science is.
So Terry I ask you what 'means' would you use?