Moral Education
Moral education is very important in shaping the
society. Any responsible person who holds the following values is a moral
person: respects others, tolerates differences, peaceful and loving. Kant
define moral person by saying that no one is born as good or bad, but moral
education assists the process of raising a moral child. Vygotsky also said that
society has an important influence in the shaping of moral person, especially
in early childhood years due to the number of interactions the child conducts
with socio-cultural environment. School is one of the institutions that help in
guiding students to be moral person especially that global values such as
respect and democracy can be taught to students effectively with the help of
hidden or formal curriculum. But as we know, teachers' behaviors and attitudes
that serve as role models would affect students' actions permanently, so the teachers
should be trained well to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to create
classroom environments that touch on moral education aspects.
It's not always the teacher's responsibility to teach students moral values because as we know it's not the first institution involved in raising a child or an individual who is responsible in the society, evidence of this case is that we see students talking bad to their classmates, although they don't hear teachers in the classroom talking like that, and no matter how much a teacher tries to mend such behavior they can't because it's non fixable in the student.
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