Moral Education in Japan

Today was printed matter garbage collection. Delivering my own items, I discovered a stack of primary school texts, among them a couple dealing with どうとく, or moral education. In Japan, the subject is mandatory during the nine years of compulsory education. Let's have a look at the text used at primary schools in Niigata City.

The cover, right to left (rendered in kanji characters) 君が 一番 光る時 Roughly, 'When you are shining brightest'. 道徳 1 Moral Education, (Grade)1