Theodore Roosevelt once stated, “to educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society”. Our education system continues to broaden from including technology and a variety of learning environments despite that students of the 21st century have a very limited moral foundation. Moral values being taught in schools is sensible as; moral educated pupils will lead to an increase of greater academic achievement, as well as standard values being reinforced creates a platform of equal ethics and lastly prepares our youth for their further on expedition through life’s journey. As “moral education occupies no formal position at any stage of the public education curriculum” (Messina and Surprenant 835), the highest age group accused
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A large percentage of younger students continue proceed in school because of external motivation prompted from praise, money or high grades. For instance family psychologist, Richard Weissbourd explains that his six year old daughter’s friend exclaimed, “I know that you want me to say I should be honest, but nobody is honest about that.” when asked about telling a teacher on the event of incomplete homework. Present day school teaches students very little about morals and instead “are taught that what counts in school are test results, teacher approval, and grade” (Lickona 54). If we teach students moral values at a young age upon entering high school they will not find “the process of learning… [as] unpleasant work [while] it continues to be forced on them” (Lickona 54). Permitting students to be praised for their easily obtained moral efforts before educational success, allows them to be embodied by self-motivation resulting in students having a greater interest in academic subjects,. The main focus of schools should create confident students because of “atmosphere of internal motivation” (Lickona 54) culminating the idea that learning can be enjoyable, improving overall academic …show more content…
The transparent point to why moral education is coherent is because with students learning the differences between certain values leads to significant and positive life choices. Yes, it is possible to have a student who excels in academics however when placed in a state “to reflect on the spiritual emptiness of [our] culture” (Shapiro 23), will this intellect know what to do? Our culture is slowly crippling as the poverty, homicide and drug crime rates continue to increase worldwide. Harvard studies have shown that the rate of mass shootings have tripled since 2011 and according to CBC News, gun homicides rates have increased by 200% in our own backyard of Toronto. As the deficiency of moral education may not be the source of these problems, it is definitely a trigger to these heinous crimes. Children who “value the welfare others… are less likely to commit violent acts” (Beinhorn 66), therefore teaching children proper ethics will give them the ability to question our world’s injustice instead of heavily adding to the problem. School should be a place where we do not learn that competition and hierarchy are important values, but instead teaching “the pupil what Aristotle called ‘practical wisdom’” (Taggart
A large percentage of younger students continue proceed in school because of external motivation prompted from praise, money or high grades. For instance family psychologist, Richard Weissbourd explains that his six year old daughter’s friend exclaimed, “I know that you want me to say I should be honest, but nobody is honest about that.” when asked about telling a teacher on the event of incomplete homework. Present day school teaches students very little about morals and instead “are taught that what counts in school are test results, teacher approval, and grade” (Lickona 54). If we teach students moral values at a young age upon entering high school they will not find “the process of learning… [as] unpleasant work [while] it continues to be forced on them” (Lickona 54). Permitting students to be praised for their easily obtained moral efforts before educational success, allows them to be embodied by self-motivation resulting in students having a greater interest in academic subjects,. The main focus of schools should create confident students because of “atmosphere of internal motivation” (Lickona 54) culminating the idea that learning can be enjoyable, improving overall academic …show more content…
The transparent point to why moral education is coherent is because with students learning the differences between certain values leads to significant and positive life choices. Yes, it is possible to have a student who excels in academics however when placed in a state “to reflect on the spiritual emptiness of [our] culture” (Shapiro 23), will this intellect know what to do? Our culture is slowly crippling as the poverty, homicide and drug crime rates continue to increase worldwide. Harvard studies have shown that the rate of mass shootings have tripled since 2011 and according to CBC News, gun homicides rates have increased by 200% in our own backyard of Toronto. As the deficiency of moral education may not be the source of these problems, it is definitely a trigger to these heinous crimes. Children who “value the welfare others… are less likely to commit violent acts” (Beinhorn 66), therefore teaching children proper ethics will give them the ability to question our world’s injustice instead of heavily adding to the problem. School should be a place where we do not learn that competition and hierarchy are important values, but instead teaching “the pupil what Aristotle called ‘practical wisdom’” (Taggart