Moral education: ‘The positive teaching’

Moral education: ‘The positive teaching’

Moral education is teaching student about human values and virtues, including honesty, kindness, generosity, courage, freedom, equality, and respect to everyone. The goal is to raise students to become morally responsible, self-disciplined citizens. Moral education aims at the development of moral values through which children develop good attitudes and behaviour toward other people in society.
We have been witnessing a lot of incidents in society that indicate the degradation of moral values, like drug addiction, misbehaviour, etc, and recently an incident of killing of an innocent child by a duo highlights the loss of moral values. Besides, there are a lot of evils prevailing in society that need to be controlled and the way to do this is by imparting positive teachings at the very first stage to the next generation.
The main concern for every parent is teaching a child to distinguish between right and wrong, for which moral values are a prerequisite. It is possible to believe wrong things while growing up, considering that many times people don’t bother telling you what is wrong or right. Since many children don’t get right and proper education about morality, they are misled in the wrong direction.
Moral values direct us to the right path to lead our lives. By imparting moral values from early days, we enable children to distinguish between right and wrong. These values include loving others, helping others, being kind to others, respecting others, morality, honesty, etc. Finally, it helps to follow the path of righteousness.
It is common that If a child misbehaves, people blame their parents and as well as their teachers. It stands to reason that a pleasant and cheerful atmosphere in the family develops love, friendliness, broad-mindedness, and kindness, generally. A child learns his behaviour from what he sees around him or her. In this regard, the family plays a significant role by helping in the socialisation process of a child.
The teachers are also the main moral developers. They should give proper guidance from time to time as teachers are inspirations for the students. Moral education is very important and vital, and if it is imparted effectively, it will help the students to make the right choices and decisions in their lives.
Moral development creates happiness, love and harmony among people. It curbs violence, dishonesty and many social evils like drug abuse, crimes, disregarding women, etc, that are because of lack of moral education and moral values. Besides, moral development ensures self confidence and motivation to do the right thing.
Moral education builds honesty and enhances the personality of the individual. It is high time that students in school, colleges and universities should be taught moral education as part of their educational curriculum. The students need to be taught about their moral duty towards their society, state, and friends and family. This education would be helpful in removing the corruption, social evils and crimes from society and will make human life much more peaceful, helpful, happy and worth living.

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