A person uses morality every day in the various situations and decisions they make. However, it is leaving people without an answer when it comes to whether or not schools should be teaching morals. Some say schools should teach morals because children need to learn what is considered right or wrong. While others say that it is not the responsibility of the teacher, but rather that of the parent. Although there are numerous arguments to support each position, schools should not teach morals for the sake that the meaning of school is to educate students on the core subjects, it is the parent’s responsibility, and it is too difficult to teach. The meaning of school to educate the student regarding the core subjects. Teaching core subjects has
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A parent’s job is to raise their child to be a thoughtful and productive member of society. This requires teaching morals for the child to become a respectable person and citizen, the parent must teach the child what they believe is right or wrong. Those who argue for teaching morals in school argue because several children are not being taught morals at home. “So, because these parents are falling in their responsibility, our educators feel they must be the ones to show these young people how to conduct their lives” (Curtis). However, not everyone has the same morals, “every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality” (Hazlitt 109). The morals schools teach likely will not align with those of the parent. This creates a problem in that, “parents naturally have beliefs about what is best for their children. They believe they know what provides more intellectually, morally, and culturally appropriate and necessary experiences” (Conner). Teaching morality is one of the several responsibilities parents have since are personal beliefs are the basis of morals and is rather difficult to teach in …show more content…
The development of personal morals is instead a crucial and personal development phase of an individual that should be personally nurtured by those closest to the person. Parents offer the best likely source of personal knowledge of a person, life wisdom and the intimate relationship required in providing guidance regarding a topic as critical as morality to personal development and the overall advancement and development of our
A parent’s job is to raise their child to be a thoughtful and productive member of society. This requires teaching morals for the child to become a respectable person and citizen, the parent must teach the child what they believe is right or wrong. Those who argue for teaching morals in school argue because several children are not being taught morals at home. “So, because these parents are falling in their responsibility, our educators feel they must be the ones to show these young people how to conduct their lives” (Curtis). However, not everyone has the same morals, “every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality” (Hazlitt 109). The morals schools teach likely will not align with those of the parent. This creates a problem in that, “parents naturally have beliefs about what is best for their children. They believe they know what provides more intellectually, morally, and culturally appropriate and necessary experiences” (Conner). Teaching morality is one of the several responsibilities parents have since are personal beliefs are the basis of morals and is rather difficult to teach in …show more content…
The development of personal morals is instead a crucial and personal development phase of an individual that should be personally nurtured by those closest to the person. Parents offer the best likely source of personal knowledge of a person, life wisdom and the intimate relationship required in providing guidance regarding a topic as critical as morality to personal development and the overall advancement and development of our