Step5: Restore the village through asset-building communities and coordinated developmental systems. Truly democratic ethical educationempowers all invoved---educators,community members, and students---as they form a learning community together,developing ethical skills and self-regulation for both individual and community actualization. The purpose of ethical behavior is to live a good life in the community.Together,community members work out basic questions such as the following: How should we get along in our community? How do we build up our community?How do we help one another flourish?Each individual lives within and active ecological context in which,ideally,the entire community builds ethical skills together.