7 reasons to add Moral Education period in Schools : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

We have always heard about how education is very important aspect of life. You can refer our previous posts to know how education helps and has importance in us in various walks of life. Knowledge of subjects and its application does complete our education at certain level or is there something else that is being not focussed. Is there an area of development of child that is being completely neglected. Let us say for example a Robotic Engineer will have all the learnings about the design, the AI systems and physics involved in building a robot so, we can say engineer is a well-educated successful person. 

 

But can we also assume that this robotic engineer also has qualities like responsible, sensible, open minded and good human being. No we cannot, for that we also need moral education to be part of our education system.

 

Schools in the rush to complete huge syllabus and focussing on sports and extra co-curricular activities the exclusive moral science period is not added in curriculum. And due to this there are many situations in life where a topper student also fail to understand simple or sometimes misses to understand basic human behavioural traits.

 

Why Moral Education is important:

 

The overall development as a human being requires incorporating moral values along with subjective know how. The root of these values should be started when young for a complete development of the mindset. The academic lessons at school though incorporate many chapters based on value education but the need is to reinstate moral science as a separate period which is being side-lined in many curriculum these days.

 

Not only at a very young level but this moral education is very much required at every stage of life. Teenagers also sometimes fall prey to many problems and take up extreme steps as they cannot handle things. To prevent all this a complete development as a human being is the necessity of the hour.

 

What does Value Education focus on:

 

Let us understand the 7 different ways where moral values can be a life changer.

 

1. Stress Management:

 

STRESS is the most common word we hear these days and even very young kids are not spared. Pressure of performance and expectation’s leaves the child in a turmoil. Here moral value mends the tender mind to think in a different manner whereby they learn to help each other and move forward.

 

There is also work pressure among the young entrepreneurs leading to life style imbalance. Not only at school level but at college level also students should be taught to handle pressure and practise healthy competition. 

 

2. Fight against failures:

 

These days nobody wants to hear that they are incompetent for something. Being incapable for some task doesn’t mean a complete failure.

 

FAILURE is a negative word that comes with all negativity. But moral education does not look at it like this though. It is indeed very positive and inspiring word. Moral value teaches how to handle failures and how these mistakes can be a stepping stone for further refinement of our weak areas to emerge out as a winner next time.

 

3. Learning to Conduct self in Life

Life shows us many paths to walk on and on that paths we meet numerous people of varied generations and of different backgrounds. One should know how one should conduct themselves in all situations. A person is truly a winner of he can express his mind without doing the damage to another. Behavioural skills are vital aspect and that can be gained through moral education and the stories and discussion on characters of same. By this students focusses on the situation and their thinking capability increases and also they value the importance of others perspective in life.

 

4. Time management

Time management learned at early stages lays a strong foundation in managing it. Not only in studies a person with his self-discipline but also can make huge changes to self and organisation. Time management is setting the priorities right and for setting the priorities, person should be well versed with one’s requirements and for that a person should in turn have a clear thought process. Moral learnings helps children to set their priorities right and make best use of each hour they have.

 

5. Practical approach of life

Knowledge and wisdom are two sides of a coin, one is incomplete without another. And so is the practical approach of life is also learnt through time with many lessons through the path. Wisdom is our ability to judge what is right or wrong, our common sense, our course of action taken according to situations, foresightedness, understanding and intelligence. Why we need schools or colleges or universities? The lessons which are taught in school are also available online. Its true we can learn basic facts and gain the knowledge about anything we want; But we will not find that love, dedication and faith of our mentors, their valuable advices, their prized experiences shared, their appreciation which builds our confidence which is priceless and couldn’t be learnt through those gadgets.

6. Gratitude towards others

Moral values shapes ones personality and character which reflects in ones deeds. Showing gratitude, love, respect makes an individual a fine human being and these values travel throughout life be it personal or professional front. Moral education trains the mind that how being humble and thankful can make a lot of difference in life and how a single change can make a huge difference in another person’s life.

 

7. Learning through Examples

Looking for an inspiration, and getting creative with it is nothing wrong, but are we looking in our brain, maybe one has more potential than simple ideas expressed in internet, maybe your initiative is chain breaker of all the rest. “The fabled musk deer searches the world for the source of scent which comes from itself” – Ramakrishna. Hope we don’t become like deer, which searches in whole world but the things are finally within self. Never underestimate yourself; give wings to your imagination, then see up in the sky how far it goes. Examples of person and their life not only tell us how to be success but also teach us how to deal with failures.

 

Thus, moral education is that important chapter of life that shapes, refines, moulds personality to reach heights with pride. This post is a part of series #EducationForAll for #CauseAChatter initiated by Blogchatter. You can have look at all the posts in this series here.

@MeenalSonal