As a graphic design educator, I believe we should teach our students to be responsible and ethical graphic designers. Design communication is a form of power. The power of design communication is seen in the re-structuring of language, in the hierarchy of information, in communicating a unique benefit, in simplifying and aesthetically polishing information, or even polarizing information. In graphic design education, students need to learn that design communication is powerful; and graphic design educators need to teach the ethical and moral side of graphic communication, and talk to students about the effects of graphic communications on society. Every day, people are subjected to design communications for thousands of products: cigarettes, ""junk"" food, diet pills, prescription medications, physical enhancements, and ultimately the promotion of unrealistic and often unhealthy lifestyles. Graphic designers, however, could and should think and act more responsibly in the communications they produce. In this presentation, I will show examples of how graphic design educators can teach their students to be responsible, ethical and moral graphic designers.