“Need and Importance of Moral Education in Schools”
It is a big question for the schools nowadays that how to
manipulate or develop moral values among the students. How and when moral
values should be taught to the students? It is going to be a big question for
the schools when schools have been facing different types of behavioral
problems among the students.
Need of Moral Education:
However it is a big problem for many schools that students are
morally not perfect and they behave irresponsible. The lack in moral values and
the unhealthy attitudes of students is a main reason of many problems in
several schools. It would be a very good reason for teaching moral education in
school. Now many schools need to improve
in student’s moral education.
Advantages of Moral Education:
Many schools have been searching the reasons of decline in moral
values and they have been working for developing good moral values among the
students. However moral values are integrated part of the education and it is
great emphasized in almost all countries. Generally Moral Education is not a
specific subject for schools but it is taught under different subjects like
languages, literature, supplementary reading books etc. Value Education is
taught as a separate subject like Moral Science in many schools.
Schools have been doing several efforts to develop the moral
values among the students. Nowadays, the syllabus is also designed with such
type of combination of many moral valued stories, poems and many lessons.
Sometimes textbooks include many inspirational lessons about great
personalities so that students may learn from their life.
It is true that textbooks and syllabus fulfill the needs of
moral values but when a teacher wants to teach moral values he needs some other
things also. Sometimes he uses moral sayings, moral stories, and different
type’s cultural activities to enhance the level of moral education. Cultural
activities are very useful to develop and to teach the moral lesson.
How a teacher can use cultural activities to teach the moral
values? Actually in many countries there are many festivals, days and occasions
for any special idea or special event. When schools organize these festivals
they have great and innovative opportunities to impart various lessons. ‘Children
assembly’ is a great example for this. It is a very famous and well known
cultural activity for schools as it displays and develops discipline among
student.
Teaching moral education is not a particular topic but it can be
taught under various programs and activities such as Annual Function, Fete, etc.
Teachers can use different plays and activities to demonstrate various moral
lessons. Cultural activities can play a great role in this. Beside cultural
activities there are many interesting activities for providing moral education
like daily prayer where teachers can arrange a daily activity as “The thought of
the day”.
