References to moral education in New Zealand over the last 15 years are traced through official and semiofficial government reports, teachers' publications and other sources. It is argued that since 1962 there has been an increasing awareness of and concern with moral education. (Author)

Reports published by the New Zealand Department of Education and other agencies there illustrate the connection which can prevail between human relations education and a failure to consider critically the ethical issues involved in sex education. A philosophical discussion of love and justice and their relationship to sex education follows. (PP)