Topic: We need more moral education - page 2. (Read 2048 times)

this is like we have fallen and cannot see the future if we never give up with all conditions there must be positive results if we get into trouble, but if moral education has been trained early and we can only do good or be carried away by this moment which leads to bad things but all need to learn from life experiences then be the best.

I am all for moral education.

But as a rule, if your school tells you "don't hack" then... I mean... most hackers don't take the authority of schools very seriously.

Remember the D.A.R.E. campaign?

I think we can safely say that campaign caused more drug use than it stopped.

The effect of a school on moral development is pretty much null when compared to the effects of parents for the first decade and peer groups after that.

Your best bet when it comes to schools would be teaching children critical thinking so they can personally challenge groupthink.

in life we must learn not only in terms of academic education, but we also must pay attention to what is meant by moral education, namely education that teaches about non-academic, especially about how good daily behavior and attitudes are the basis of human life and society.

I think you're right. School these days don't even pay attention to moral education anymore which i thought is more important than academic education. Moral should be taught ever since we were kids, so when we all grow up, we already know how to act around other people.

Yes, I agree to you that both the school and the parents are responsible in teaching their children about moral education.. It is important to them to learn how to respect other specially the elders. Children nowadays need to teach about the good values and ethics because  some of them doesn't care to it anymore but I don't think so that all countries do not pay attention to it. Other countries still practice it and teach it whether in school or at home.

Attention of schools in teaching morality has not shifted over time,but rather it is social standards and parenting  that has dwindled.
In recent times,the role of parenting and moral teachings to children and society at large has been left to children themselves,our peer and the internet(social media).
In so doing,there is limited or no control over what we learn or unlearn.Consequentially,a continues hiking of immortality on the internet(social media) and transferred to the real world.
So it is society as whole that has wake up from the slumber and up morality levels in society instead of only liking up to only schools and worship centers

Some people assume that a lack of religious upbringing is central to the plight of our misguided society. Others reason that our value crises stems from future shock. erosion of family life, cosmopolitan effects of mass media, revolution in science and technology, and the complexity of ecological problems.We are advised that many people, young and old, are unaware of their moral responsibilities to themselves and to other people.

Yes get morals..Learn how to speak nice then steal everyone's monies..
Remember a scammer is nice that's how they scam you by being nice..Should see how nice our queen speaks and her lot oh and they got educated in morals < Nice to have morals   maybe i be nice by slashing you then sell you a plaster aid  BUT remember i was nice while i slashed you ..
The amount of devs on here with so called morals would rob the eyeballs out the back of your head while being nice..

Really what you say here, indeed now a bad activity or things that are wrong actually become a very proud thing, though it is clear that this is a very bad thing ...
Hopefully with the morality of children will be better, parents teach good things.

Indeed, education is indispensable in life. having an education, social life will be text, nice and more developed. For example, without education, we think that there will be many terrible things happening on Earth.

Moral education wont get to scammers, I guarantee that.
Think deeper, where do scammers come from? Scammers are pole who do not have sense of morals but this goes back to their childhood and their families. Mostly of them will come form bad families were their parents do not care, or they dont have one or both parents or they are alcoholics. Possibly they have been living in bad environment also, poor and have not went to school at all.

But I agree with you with the overly academic thinking big time. I think that this is madness not because calculus or languages are bad but because there are fundamentals which are not taken seriously in school which later in life makes huge difference and these things are philological. Kids should be made to learn different coping mechanism in school like mediation , Yoga and do sports. Do sports not to trough some tests how much one can do against another. These things are essential for healthy life, otherwise a lot of kids grow up with severe  psychological problems. Then starts the story of how to fix that. to fix broken adult is 100 times harder than educate and nurse kid to be healtly adult/.

You get it right Senior, we need moral to live peacefully together and I think teaching of morals to young generations should not be limited to homes and religion places.

It's arguable that patriotism and nationalism are often immoral if taken to extremes.  Where do you draw the line?  As others have said, there's no one person who gets to decide what is or isn't immoral.  Patriotism can also decide the country's capability of causing vile acts of depravity if left unchecked.  Morality has too many grey areas for it to be something you can indoctrinate without risks.  There have been many times in history when humans have got this so monumentally wrong.


"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde


"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein


“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.” - George Carlin


"Nationalism is a form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings." - Bryant McGill

Schools are the second home for every people wherein they're spending a lot of time in schooling. Therefore, people become academically excellent, hence, people become knowledgeable to various things and matter. On the other hand, people may become disrespectful because there's a tendency people may become arrogant.


 Moral education must be introduce and give an importance for us people to achieve of well-being and make this world much better.

On the one hand, you're right! there is a definitely downshift of morality among people. And something needs to be done.
On the other hand, such things as respecting others should be taught in families.

It’s quite right. I think moral education goes beyond any learning, even if it’s a low-cultural person, but if he/she can have good morals, then he/she will bring joy to the side!

I agree there needs to be more focus on the lesson "how to be a nice person". But maybe formal education isn't the way to go.

The most effective education is the one at home and the one that starts from a young age. Toddlers and young children grow up watching adults around them behave. It can be the case that because parents are now separated from their children for a big chunk of the day (one at work, one at school), there is less time to hand down their sense of moral.

While school is indeed important in a child's upbringing (they spend a lot of their life there), parents are the most influential person in their life.

This is another good one i happen to stumble on and I must say it is on point. Wish I can publish this on pages on newspapers and air it for the world to hear. All sort of evil is happening and people will come up with one sweet name and turn it to profession and not even the law will call them to book. The first time I knew about hackers, my first reaction was "what for" then a friend of mine told me they are used them to combat cyber-crimes. and stop malicious activities online. But today they are the ones generating the malicious activities. Scammer is actually a profession in the part of the world where I reside. they see themselves as smart and intelligent and their victim weak and stupid. I receive calls most times from scammers telling me i have problem with my ATM Card or Bank BVN and that I should tell them the pin and other secret information so they can help me fix my bank account to enable me withdraw money. Imagine the length they go to. some have called me that they just arrived at the airport from overseas and need me to come pick them from the airport to avoid entering the wrong cabs and get rob of their dollars. The recent one is that I should come for interview for jobs I know I never applied for. My pain is that some of those behind these issues are teenagers. they feel they are smarter and can do what the elders cannot do, in that case, How can someone that feel he or she knows more than the elders, ever have respect for them? Over the news you see teenagers involved in untold crimes. no conscience anymore. They see elders as their equals because they are of the same height and stature. My house sometimes is like war zone because the 'young adults' here dont want to do the right thing you tell them to do. They will intentional do the opposite and tell you, 'those are old fashion, we are in computer age' It is just so sad honestly speaking.

When I was their age, I dare not contribute to any discussion of the elders, you keep quiet and listen or you go to your room. But kids these days are the opposite. the so called freedom of expression is being abused by our young adults. they dive into conversions with no regards. In my time, it was the elders that will stretch their hands to shake the little ones but now the reverse is the case. then we knew what shame meant but now there is nothing called shame in their dictionary. so they go wild!

Please kindly educate us sir... what is morality and who gets to decide what is moral and not?

Yeah well things are much more hands-on now. We need reliable, practice, real life examples that are anchored in our reality rather than being told fluffy ideas that have no application. We need to do rather than hear what we should do.

There's a huge cap between the authorities and the common folk simply because the authorities do not know what the common folk like to do in their everyday lives. They cannot connect because they think that just explaining ideas and giving rules is enough to make it work. This is especially true in academia as "experts" get too wrapped up in their theories rather than the implications or consequences of these concepts.