It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.