Teaching Desirable Characteristics in Schools: A Way to Guide Students in Current Society
This 3-page undergraduate paper addresses the debate concerning establishing desirable personal characteristics in students. Using personal experience and citations from literature, this paper concludes that moral instruction for three primary reasons. Firstly, moral instruction helps students to achieve a well-rounded and richer education, as it teaches them about sensitivity, participation, and personal excellence. Secondly, moral instruction is essential for todays complex society. Not only do major world leaders couch current events in moralist discourse, but critical thinking is essential for understanding todays world. Teaching students about morals will help them understand current discourses and will push them to rethink their own values and ideas about ethics. Finally, this paper argues that establishing desirable personal characteristics in students is necessary because other cultural media are already establishing characteristics in students. Empowering schools to teach students personal excellence would help some of the often negative behavioural models students see elsewhere.
