Moral values are now-a-days lacking among different persons maintaining their status at different levels. Though without these values life may become useless to all. A person is not an ideal person without maintaining basic values in real life!!!
Perhaps, the best way is to make yourself a role model, and illustrate morality by tangible life experience
Immanuel Kant said:
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy,
but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
In front of students, "Be watchful" of all actions, some may take us as ROLE MODELS.
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin
Perhaps, the best way is to make yourself a role model, and illustrate morality by tangible life experience
Immanuel Kant said:
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy,
but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
Two aspects are important:
1. Teach at least one subject on moral values and ethics.
2. Teacher behaviour must be as role model of moral values.
By actually practicing these values, my dear friend, and putting them into effect!
Yes we can instill moral values in our students besides the knowledge taught to them. A lecturer with exemplary attitude, who treats the students well in a just manner for all, and who works hard during the lectures or practicals... will surely gain the hearts & the minds of the students. This lecturer will be followed by some students. Realistically, if 5-10 % of the students become morally alright thanks to his/her efforts, then the mission is accomplished.
Thank you Brenda for sharing your valuable experience.
Ethics are integral part of values in life.
I also respect all previous answers, but want to add that moral education should be conducted during education, during talking with students when it will be claimed by favour situation but not a reprimand or special lecture or as proposition to think and discuss different points of view.
We should teach our students about ethics and moral values. This is the way how to inculcate moral values in our students!
Dear @Shankhadeep, let me remember the followers on some threads with so many good answers about teaching the ethics!
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_ethics_be_taught_to_undergraduate_students
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Has_there_been_research_to_show_that_increasing_education_improves_ethics_in_a_community
A lot of thanks to you @ Ljubomir!!! You helped a lot to search the way out.......
Becoming an asset necessitated internalizing and living up to the highest ethical ideals of the community. So paideia included education in the arts, philosophy and rhetoric, history, science, and mathematics; training in sports and warfare; enculturation or learning of the city's religious, social, political, and professional customs and training to participate in them; and the development of one's moral character through the virtues. Above all, the person should have a keen sense of duty to the city.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civic-education/
Something more on The Importance of Role Models for ethical issues! "Aristotle's idea of virtue ethics relies substantially on the effects role models have on people. Aristotle believes that we learn to be moral (virtuous) by modeling the behavior of moral people. Through continual modeling we become virtuous out of habit. Of course, people can learn both good and bad habits depending on the role models they have. Aristotle believed that it was the moral duty of every citizen to act as a good role model. This was especially true for people who were most likely to be in the public eye, since these people had so many eyes on them. Who are the role models in contemporary society?"
Many fine resources are available via this following link!
http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/lawhead/chapter5/the_importance_of_role_models.htm
Value Education includes developing the moral, cultural, spiritual and the ability to make proper value judgement and internalize them in one‟s life. It is essentially
„man making‟ and „character building‟. Right from the vedic period, the teachers are responsible for developing the knowledge and moulding the character of the students. Teachers are capable of opening the young mind to realize their abilities and capacities.
http://srjis.com/srjis_new/images/articles/22%20Janatha%2021032013.pdf
It is very true dear @Chrisnan, value education include all the mentioned and some more! like truth and wisdom, love and compassion, health and harmony with nature, peace and justice, national unity and global solidarity....! Very good Unesco book on Learning to be!
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001279/127914e.pdf
@ Ljubomir
The value binding is well articulated through Creativity and the Appreciation of Beauty in that Unesco link.
Thank you Krishnan and Ljubomir for your important information.
Moral values that stem form family are basic for their improvement by us, the educators. Hard job is to inculcate moral values in our students if previous assumption is not fulfilled! Of course, such difficulties may be overcome by teacher's passion to achieve it!
Swami Vivekananda says that true education is man-building or character-building. Ethics plays an important role for all scientists, researchers, and students. Faculty by being very ethical in all aspects serve as role-models for their students. I am highly inspired by my research guide, (Late), Dr. Byrnes, USA. [See photo of my guide! I am very fortunate to be his student]
(1) Do the best you can and (2) be true to your vision. Neither is easy, but both are possible.
Very well explained by all the authors.
When you are an example of morality , present all the qualities of idle teacher, students naturally influenced by your talk, will appear as a role model.
Narrate patriotic, religious or ethical stories. Question them about the lesson they have learned.
Media exposure plays a major role in our life. While watching the news or even a movie discuss the different aspects and ask the child what he/she would have done in that situation. This will develop a sense of reasoning in children.
While performing religious activities involve the child where you can. It generates faith and trust towards God.
Listen respectfully to your child’s ideas and wherever required correct them. This will boost their self-confidence.
Spend quality time with children. The quality of time that you spend with your children has a close effect on what they grow up into.
Provide opportunities for your children to help others. This will instill in them generosity.
Involve your child in community service. It will generate an attitude of serving.
Tell your child about the people you admire and why. It will silently inculcate good qualities.
Comment on compassionate behavior. Let your child know that caring is an important moral value.
It is very difficult to do it as a professor, if there are no fundamentals of these moral values, acquired at home (parents).
We can do this through several things. The first is that students generally consider their professors as the highest and monitor all their actions and actions. Therefore, if we instill values and ethics in ourselves, it is natural to convey them to our students. On the other hand, I imagine transferring the values and customs of our communities, To promote values and ethics in them
regards
my opinion about that, lack of moral values are often due to superficiality. I think that the best way to help people develop moral values it to teach them to reason, help them become able to carefully observe the context in which they move and their own action, with related consequences of both material and emotional/affective kind.
regards
...... if one understand and have good moral values only then he can inculcate it in other.......
By showing good morals whenever we interact with them or interact with others in their presence. in other words by living good morals ourselves
In math - my subject - one does not have the time and place to talk about morals, at least not a lot. But on occasion one does have the occasion, such as when I discuss how to view project work and assignments - which could be seen as an opportunity to borrow a friend's solution. We have strict rules about this type of cheating, and we talk about this in class.
Dr Shankhadeep Chakraborty , we must ensure that we teach them from heart.
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