Essay Name- Essay on Importance of Moral Education
AID TO VOCABULARY
1. Integration - having different parts working together as a unit
2. Reinforcing - strengthening by adding more material for support
3. Fostering - helping (something) growing or developing
4. Innate - existing from the time a person is born
5. Pursuit - an attempt to find, achieve or get something
6. Inculcate - to cause (something) to be learned by (someone) by repeating it again and again
7. Concerted - done in a planned and deliberate way usually by several or many people
8. Imparting - making (something) known to someone
9. Restraint - a way of limiting, controlling or stopping something
10. Parable - a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual
11. Grease the Palms - to give (someone) money for doing something
12. Grassroots - illegal or dishonest for your fundamental level
Essay
This system can only nourish and strengthen our national consciousness. Before 1976, education was the exclusive responsibility of the states. By the Constitutional Amendment of 1976, education was included in the Concurrent List. While the role and responsibility of the states in education remained largely unchanged, the Union Government accepted a larger responsibility for reinforcing the national and integrated character of education. The modified policy envisages a national system of education to bring about uniformity in education.
Education means the fostering of the personality through continuous development of one's innate qualities. It aims to adjust the rhythm of the individual's life with the rhythm of society. This adjustment involves strengthening one's character and consolidation of the moral fibre. Today, our education system lacks these moral standards.
From the ethical point of view, human actions can be judged as 'good' or 'bad', 'right' or 'wrong', 'moral' or 'immoral'. These judgements are always determined by the common moral standard of our society. Morality is not a law imposed upon us by our fellow men. It is a law of lifestyle that we can understand and choose because we see that it is good sense to abide by the same. Broadly speaking, morality means honesty of character, fairness in attitude and renunciation of evils like hatred, jealousy greed, telling lies, etc. The ultimate objective of education is to inculcate these human values in students.
Today, life has become mechanical. Modern man has become very materialistic and is preoccupied with the pursuit of material things One cannot worship God and Mammon at once. The excessive urge for materialistic gains has made man ignore the spiritual and moral aspects of his life. It is a fact that today the educational system has failed to inculcate moral values in young people. Despite the phenomenal increase in the number of educational institutions, there has been a deterioration of human values in our society. Charity, sympathy, selfless service, helping others and such other qualities are found only in a few people nowadays. This is a matter of great concern for educationists, not only in India but all over the world. According to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources Development (HRD), "the concerted efforts made during the last six decades have failed to achieve the desired results. Well chalked out plans and strategies for making our education value-oriented still remain on paper."
Now moral education is not included in any syllabus-whether science or humanities. But our ancient universities of Nalanda and Taxila focussed on imparting moral education to the students. Then, teachers laid emphasis on the need for one to become a perfect human being. Values like respect to elders and teachers, discipline and restraint in life, were taught by the teachers. In ancient times, children were sent to the Guru's ashram not only to receive education (which was known as Guru-Shishya Parampara) which could equip them to earn their livelihood but also to imbibe moral and spiritual values. Such values helped them to sustain themselves in their moments of confusion and anxiety. Hence, they were able to sail through the ups and downs of life. Today, these values are completely overlooked by our education system.
Educationists opine that morality cannot be taught as a subject in any educational institution. It is something which a child learns from its parents and family. As our country is secular, it is not practicable to include religion in the syllabus in schools or colleges. Moral education can only be given through discipline-forming codes of conduct, to be followed, and meting out punishment for violating them.
Moral education can be given through a value education curriculum by all boards and universities. At the school level, the syllabus should include folk tales, stories of patriotism, biographies of great men, poems and parables providing valuable lessons for the students. At the university level, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has introduced a scheme of value education among students. Imparting human values to the students is the need of the hour. Moral education is most successful when it is passive and indirect, rather than coercive.
Our indifference to morality is clear from the widespread corruption in our society. There is no sphere of public administration where this practice does not rule supreme. Bribery has become a common feature of our public life. One can get illegal things done and can bypass the law easily, by using money to grease the palms" of public officials, Corruption is rampant among the police, judiciary and administration. We have to start at the grassroots level by imparting moral education to our children if we wish to root out corruption in society.
Moral character is very important in our life. No individual can become great without developing a moral character. All great men like Gandhiji. Vivekananda, Subhash Chandra Bose and Abraham Lincoln were men of strong and noble character. Moral character is necessary for individuals. so it is, also for a nation. A nation cannot progress if it has lost its moral character. Today our country is suffering from regionalism, communalism and terrorism. If our young men and women today indulge in immoral activities, it is only because of a lack of proper education. Only proper direction through human values can teach them the righteous way to achieve success. Thus, imparting moral education from the grassroots level to the university level is very essential for an upright citizenry.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1. The Union Government accepted the responsibility of reinforcing the national and integrated character of education. 2. Today's education lacks moral standards.
The ultimate objective of education is to inculcate human values. 4. Despite the increase in the number of educational institutions, there has been a deterioration of human values in our society.
5. Today moral education is not included in the syllabus but in ancient
times, students learned moral and spiritual values.
6. Morality is something that a child learns from their parents and family. 7. Moral education can be given through value education curriculum by all boards and universities.
8. There is widespread corruption in our society. The introduction of moral education is necessary for the betterment of our society.
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