Only a person with ethical value can contribute to the positive development of the society as well as nation.
So, it is important to teach ethics at schools and even at college level to create better citizens and society.
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" … it is important to teach ethics at schools and even at college level … "
Absolutely!
Where ever you are teaching decision making at that point also focus ethical parameter of decision rather than teaching desperately.
Well, I have a problem with the idea. Too much of it involves kids in imagining they're good when they're talking nonsense! My Canadian niece once informed we mustn't kill whales. Okay, but why do we allow native people to? No clue....
My British niece and nephews endlessly seeking to guilt family adults to stop smoking. All rabbiting on about not eating meat. You're not eating dead baby lamb are you Uncle Chris? Would you prefer it if I ate live baby lamb?
It amounts to teaching feelings with no real reasoning. Teacher's prejudices, not real morality. A path to a social nightmare....
Christopher NOCK
" … it is important to teach ethics at schools and even at college level … " strongly agree
It is one of the core purposes of school system. To teach ethics at every educational level.
In my country, ethics has always been part of curriculum right from elementary school to high schools. Ethics are taught in some many subjects such as social studies, civic education, government, in fact, as many subjects as possible in order to make good governance from them and also to make the society free from unethical and lawlessness. Observing ethics is everybody's business.
Ethics first should start from home..then society including schools and learn from old people..In addition it should be teach in colleges to have the best ethics when person come in contact with his job and directors..so it is the brick for building societies
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Ethics had always been there as moral instruction in the primary schools. The problem with modern society is not the school syllabus but the doing of what is taught.
Obianuju P. Umeji
1.The behaviour and words of every teacher are living examples of teaching ethics. Otherwise teachers are missing their most important duty.
2. Just a reminder that all God's prophets were teachers of ethics and wisdom lessons in words of God to humanity
the ethics should be taught from very early age and continue at any age in home and school
its a responsibility of parents and teachers. A university or academic never care about that. The teacher who is work for their university or school also never care about that.
awareness give to the professor or teacher to work for the society, not for the college and schools.
Yes ethics should be part of syllabus ..students must teach what is right and what is wrong
Yes, i think it is necessary to educated ethics in schools.
Yes it should be taught everywhere, at home (by words and action) and at school. Many schools' curriculum has ethics and they're being taught but the difference we see in our society today stems from the lack of examples of people who are applying ethics in their daily living.
If parents and adults show ethnics, it's easier for younger people to learn and practice.
I think teaching ethics in homes will be more productive.
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.
- Albert Schweitzer
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
I utterly agree with the submission of Prof. Obianuju P. Umeji. The students in all the educational levels and institutions should go beyond receiving ethics teachings and begin to do what were taught.
Morality is a vexed issue. In these days of moral decadence in the society, it is important that people are taught the right way to behave among peers, in groups, in organisations, public institutions and the wider society. I support totally that ethics should be taught in all educational levels and institutions.
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I think every school should hire teachers with good ethics. This will affect students positively. A great student but with no ethics could be a disaster for the company.
Ethics should taught in school, college as it is very helpful to understand what is right and what is wrong
Sajda, ethics in one form or another has been taught in Japanese schools for some time. Also, ethics is not taught in the context of religion for the most part in Japan, so the only contexts in which ethics really gets presented is at home or in schools.
It is very important in our life, it should be taught in schools and be part oftheshool curriculum.
I think in many societies it is quite difficult to teach ethics in schools. Which ethics does one teach? Certainly I would not want any form of religious ethics taught in the public schools in the US. I prefer the teaching of civics in which students learn what it is to be a good citizen in a democratic society. They learn how the political system works and why it works the way it does as well as exploring issues such as socio-economic variations, inequality, and justice. I would not want my child being taught ethics from any particular religious perspective, but I do think there need to be classes in which students debate and explore how one determine right and wrong.
Ethics can be taught and learned at schools; however, incidental approaches are more effective than intentional ones. Like the acquisition of their mother tongue, children can learn ethical norms from their surroundings and parental behavior as well as the way parents observe ethical standards in real life.
We may find countries that have taken a step forward. The Ministry of Education could study the case and then should take an action.
Ethics start at home, I strongly believe it should extend to schools
It is already in the school curriculum especially in primary and high schools.
It is important to teach ethics at schools and even at college level to create better citizens and society.
Which ethics should be taught? There are many different moral systems that do not always agree on what is right and wrong. It seems too simplistic to simply state that ethics should be taught in schools.
It is key in inculcating moral upright ness on the students I'm their early stage in life.
Ethics should not only to be taught in school but in colleges and universities too.
I find it troubling that so many of the responses from scholars here are a rather simplistic, "yes, of course." Few contributors have addressed the fundamentally important question of which ethics should be taught. One entry indicated that we should remember that the prophets of one religion's god taught ethics. Well, that's fine, but I'm not a member of that religion (along will billions of other people), nor do I think there are any gods as empirical beings. In my view all gods are simply creations of the human imagination and parts of religious ideologies. So appeals to gods are not helpful to me nor many other people who have views similar to mine.
If by "ethics," one means that students should be exposed to different moral systems and taught to use tools to think about right and wrong from different perspectives, then I think it should be taught in schools. If by "ethics" it is meant that students should be taught about right and wrong, then I think we have a very difficult challenge, since humans do not universally agree on what is right and wrong. This is not a yes or no question--it's much more complex than that. And it begins with defining what we mean by teaching "ethics."
Teaching ethics happens throughout life if we are talking about practical ethics. And the main role in this is played by the family. If the child has no idea about the norms of behavior, then most likely he should not even be allowed to go to school. The school has the amazing ability to turn many important and necessary knowledge into a dry "subject", giving little to the student. For example, I first read War and Peace only after graduation. At school, it was so traditional and boring that I didn’t have the slightest desire to take a book, and textbooks were enough for answers in the class, especially since “knowledge” was not assessed by the level of understanding, by the degree of accuracy of the textbook reproduction. I am afraid that the teaching of "ethics" in the school will turn into the same profanation. In addition, I have seen quite a few people who had, for example, the highest marks in physics and mathematics, but who cannot put anything into practice. So with the teaching of ethics can happen like.
Ethics should be taught at this level and done as a refresher course at other levels. Even, all ramifications of life involve ethics.
In a complex world can any one ethical stance be accepted. Teaching ethics on relationships is fine except as pointed here people hold different views on relationships. Different views on workplaces, different ethics on academic performance. Clearly the teaching of norms is not the same as teaching ethics.
Ethical value extremely related to moral value. Without ethical and moral value from childhood no one can shine properly. So, it is urgently needed to teach ethical value along with primary education strongly
It's a fantastic question indeed and I think it’s not only a major part of our life but also it’s a prerequisite to be a human being. It should learn from the family to school even in university level.
An interesting addition to this is I think what is happening in UK schools at this precise moment. The education authorities are pressing for the teaching of different kinds of sexuality, homosexuality, transgender, as a form of ethical inclusiveness and as a caution to prejudice. Religious parents and groups are declaring that this is inethical as they do not want their children to be taught about homosexuality -in case one assumes they become homosexual. The authorities say this is an example of homophobia the authorities are trying to deal with.
We then have different kinds of morality at work, pressing against each other. Is any of it actually moral, let alone ethical?
Is inclusivity a moral and ethical issue? The religious parents often declare their religion is prejudiced against, which is immoral and unethical, but see nothing wrong in being prejudiced against others. Does the government have an ethical right to impose its views like an overarching parent? Is that moral or ethical?
Ethics should be taught in family....
Then school, college, university can play a good role....
Let's first teach the 3 Rs properly.
- Addendum for those unfamiliar with the idiom "the 3 Rs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_three_Rs
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