Human intelligence as discovered provides a rational ground for critical thought expressed as moral and ethical inquiry in education. Applying principles of epistemology to educational pedagogy yields a method of value analysis free of religious specification. Conscious moral responsibility follows easily for a person so educated. Making goodness an expression of what it means to be human and how human's develop; making ethics and morality intellecutal matters permit a correctibility unavailable by any other method of discovery. Critical thinking applied to ethics and morals, education, training, happiness, and finally to literary examples from Benjamin Franklin and Shakespeare conclude the essay.