Aristotle placed education at the core of the responsibilities of the state, but he also noted that almost no society (save the Spartans) engaged in it thoughtfully, intentionally, and rationally. The most important part of that education is that involving character and virtues. But we have particular problems even if we were to focus on teaching virtue; living in a pluralistic and free society, there is no agreed upon way to live or agreement on what should be praised or blamed. We educate children to know how to be angry through family and school, but also through popular culture and entertainment. The understanding that Plato and Aristotle had of the role of poetry in cultivating virtue in citizens is helpful for us to think constructively about this, although liberal commitments to pluralism and tolerance mean that we need to think through how those values complicate the problem of how and how much we can teach people to be angry correctly.