If you answered “Chapters of the Fathers” go to the end of the class. If you offered “Ethics of the Fathers” go even farther. Yet this is what we are told in countless English and Hebrew works on Avos.
Actually, “Pirkei Avos” means “Fundamental (or Principal) Lessons”, which is also how David Baraco translates it in the introduction to his Me’am Lo’ez on Avos.
“Pirkei” as in שונה לו פרקו.
“Avos” as in Shabbos, etc.
Isn’t this supposed to be their forte? If the Mussar ignoramuses don’t know even this much, why are they trusted on anything else?