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Ethics are education, I do not consider that you can separate academic knowledge from ethics. They direct and inform our entire life, in everything we do and in every thing we think.
Why not have a look at the Permaculture Ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Shares? They are simple common sense ethics that are easily explained and understood by even the smallest child.
I have really wracked my brains and I can not think of one subject that is not best informed by ethics. Similarly everyday life and all employment/professions need a sound grounding in ethics.
Ethics and values ARE education.
Schools should do both and hopefully kids already have values and ethics instilled at them from home. At my kids elementary school each month one kid from each class gets treated to a special lunch for things like, truthfulness, being a good friend, being trustworthy..
In order to succeed in life you need to no more than academics.
Regardless of whether schools establish a specific format for teaching ethics and values, it is inevitable that these will be taught anyway. For instance, as soon as a teacher or principal disciplines a student for stealing, they are imparting ethical teachings.
This is a topic that has been debated in education for centuries. In general, parents of children whose school culture matches their culture will be in favor of the school teaching ethics and values. However, if a family's values are different from the dominant culture of the school (perhaps an Orthodox Jewish family living near a typical American school) they would generally be opposed to this. This is why many religious and cultural groups establish their own schools- in order to avoid having their children be taught values that are different from their own.
I'd have to say that, because many parents are not teaching ethics or values to their children, it couldn't hurt for schools to give some general information about these topics to the children as they teach them.
The most important things one learns are ethics and values. Academic knowledge does not make one a good person. The objective of schools is to mould children to become "good citizens"/good people who also know how to get on in the world for which academic knowledge is necessary. But social skills based on ethics and values are the bets education that schools can impart.
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no, schools should impart ethics and values as well. As the times are changing nowadays with more nuclear families, there is no chnce of children learning values thro' moral grandma stories
For the development of a responsible , law-abiding, enriched first class citizen of the country , the skills required to use the knowledge imparted by the schools are very crucial. Now these set of skills can be acquired only if the individual has a strong base on ethics & cultural values as well.
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