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Ailene F. Quinto BSMA-lll 1.whether or Not Moral Training Is The Primary Aim of Education

1. The document discusses whether moral training is a primary aim of education. It argues that moral training through character development is important to produce responsible citizens with good values. Moral training helps students face challenges in society and use knowledge to benefit humanity. 2. It also discusses whether the current education system provides adequate moral training. It notes that ethics courses are required and values education is taught in schools. Recent laws also mandate character building activities to strengthen students' decision-making skills. 3. Additionally, it addresses whether religion should be part of the school curriculum. It believes religion should be taught to promote spiritual development and respect for all. Religious education encourages tolerance and allows students to develop a sense of identity.

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Ailene F. Quinto BSMA-lll 1.whether or Not Moral Training Is The Primary Aim of Education

1. The document discusses whether moral training is a primary aim of education. It argues that moral training through character development is important to produce responsible citizens with good values. Moral training helps students face challenges in society and use knowledge to benefit humanity. 2. It also discusses whether the current education system provides adequate moral training. It notes that ethics courses are required and values education is taught in schools. Recent laws also mandate character building activities to strengthen students' decision-making skills. 3. Additionally, it addresses whether religion should be part of the school curriculum. It believes religion should be taught to promote spiritual development and respect for all. Religious education encourages tolerance and allows students to develop a sense of identity.

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Ailene F.

Quinto
BSMA-lll
1.Whether or not moral training is the primary aim of education.
The primary purpose of education includes cognitive development and character
formation, both of these are important because knowledge without proper character would
never be enough to become a responsible and accountable person. Character formation serves
as a moral training that helps shape attitudes and behaviors, reflected in such values as
honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, self-discipline, and reliability; cognitive-academic and
character development prepares student for work, for further education, for lifelong learning
and for citizenship. Moral training as a purpose of education will enable a person to rise above
narrow mindedness, self-interest, anger, fear, miserliness and to utilize his knowledge for the
betterment of humanity rather than for its destruction and dilapidation. In recent years, moral
training has been emphasized in education from primary school all the way up to further
education and beyond. Producing students with good morals, ‘soft skills’ and ‘skills for life’ is
seen as an important aim of teaching. Moral training nurtures the development of an ethical
and responsible individuals by teaching them about the good values that a person should have.
It teaches the students the virtues of caring for other people, integrity, accountability, and
other essential traits that make for an upstanding citizen. Moral training is among the primary
aim of education since students spend most of their time at school that’s why it is the perfect
place to instill moral values in them. Moral training was also included as a primary purpose
because it helps in preparing the students to face the many opportunities and unknown
dangers that are present in today's society. Moral training gives the students the knowledge
they need to know about the dangers of the society and deal with them properly and morally.
Moral training has always been a primary aim of education because this ensures that students
will become an upstanding and good member of the society.
2. Whether or not our present educational system and the curricula of our schools provide
adequate moral training for our students.
It is certain that our schools provided adequate moral training to our students, for
instance, universities and colleges are required to provide a 3-unit ethics course for every
bachelor’s degree and consequently values education are also taught in both elementary and
high school. Moral training is vital for the success in the modern world, and so it is a
fundamental requirement for any school. Recently, the Department of Education welcomed the
recent passage of Republic Act No. 11476, or the Good manners and Right conduct (GMRC) and
Values Education Act. This republic act would make sure that moral training was provided to
the youth in order to help them strengthen their decision-making skills, attitude and behaviors
especially in these critical times. This law constitutes that the school curriculum should
introduce values education through clear, distinct, specific and concrete character-building
activities such as role playing, community immersion activities, school-initiated values
formation activities and other forms of experiential learning. Through this law we could
certainly say that our current school curriculum indeed provides an adequate moral training to
our students that inculcates patriotism and nationalism, fostering love of humanity, respect of
human rights, acknowledging the rights and duties of citizenship, strengthening ethical and
spiritual values and developing moral character and personal discipline.
3. Whether or not religion should be taught in our schools as an integral part of the
curriculum.
I really do believe that religion should be taught in our schools as an integral part of our
curriculum because this was one of our ways to return back to a society where moral standards
and true values are always important, because honestly, nowadays people were becoming
more selfish and our society slowly becomes individualized where people just only protect and
think about themselves. So, I think teaching religious education would really help us to
understand ourselves as well as the others, which could in turn bring back our sense of
humanity . Religious education should also be taught because it promotes the spiritual, moral,
social and cultural development of students. Religious education must be taught in school
because it emphasizes respect for others, regardless of their beliefs, race or social status, this
would help in creating a diverse yet a cohesive society. Moreover, in today’s diverse society,
children need to understand other principal religions and various world views. In teaching
about the beliefs and traditions of other people, this particular learning course would promote
discernment and allow students to combat prejudice. In a world which is increasingly full of
extremism, division and hate, such tolerance is essential. Religious education is important to be
taught in schools because it inspires students to think and establish their own sense of identity
especially during this time when education becomes more utilitarian and only seen as a means
of simply contributing to a skills-based economy. And, if young people are empowered to
recognize their own uniqueness and meaning, they will thrive in a pluralistic culture and global
community, both as individuals and as citizens.
4. Whether or not political and economic problems have a moral bearing, and why.
Political and economic problems have no moral bearings. Often time the people behind
these political and economic problems are not held accountable for their actions which in turn
make them lose their moral bearing. Political and economic problems provide the
rationalization for intolerance and injustice toward the “other,” which is the source of conflict
and suffering. Political and economic problems such as corruption, inequality etc. happens
because someone use illegal means to maximize personal gain. These problems are indicative
of a latent decay in our ethical values and orientation. It demonstrates the people’s futile
attempt to build a society without a foundational reference to the moral principles of justice,
transparency, accountability, fairness and a service-oriented notion of leadership. Take for
example when people experience corruption (a political problem), often times bribe must be
paid to receive medical attention, obtain a building permit, or enjoy phone services. A judge
rules against a party, not based on the facts of the case, but because the opposition pays a
bribe, knows a power broker, or has the same racial or ethnic background. A person is beaten,
imprisoned or subject to a higher fine because he or she refuses to pay a bribe solicited by a
police officer. Retirement funds are also lost to fraudsters or tied up in some money-laundering
scheme. While the victims of corruption or other economic or political problems suffer personal
loss, intimidation and inconvenience, those who commit corrupt acts and schemes tend to
experience personal gain, greater convenience and a sense of superiority. Thus, based on the
presented example, we could properly tell that economic and political problems doesn’t indeed
have moral bearing as they tend to neglect common good.

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