Argumentative Essay 1 - First Draft

SHOULD SCHOOLS PROVIDE MORAL EDUCATION FOR YOUTH, OR SHOULD INSTRUCTION  IN VALUES BE LEFT TO PARENTS?

     

     Moral education can be described as an education that can help to teach ethics, values and good behaviors such as politeness to young children. In our society, there are two opposed views that schools should provide moral education for youth or instruction in values should be left to parents. Some people still have biases about the teaching of values in schools. In my view, education which is given in the family is not adequate for children, so schools provide moral education for youth. I think that education which is systematically given by specialists will be more effective for children.

     First, children can learn the moral values in classes where the moral education is given with the help of specialists. As we know, the first education starts with family. Children learn the basic things like what is right or wrong from their family, but it does not mean that all of the children know them because sometimes family is not a good role model for children in terms of drugs and alcohol. Parents educate their children not to smoke cigarettes; however, many children live in homes where the cigarette is smoked. In my opinion, values depend on our character and personality. The most important thing is to understand children’s characteristic features and directing them according to their traits. For these reasons, values education classes should add curriculums.

    Second, the ethic is an important topic and children should learn some ethical values such as fairness and honesty. These can be learned in schools where provide children moral classes with the help of experts in their early ages. Experts know how to teach and develop children’s moral values Experts train children with some special methods such as working with a group students like therapy speaking them good sides of the honesty. After that, values education programs assist children to shape their life according to good values.  As long as they practiced and come across ethical topics, they accept to be honest and they can reflect what they have learnt to their social life.

    Finally, moral values should be a major subject from kindergarten to college.  Children should learn moral values and respect the rights of others. Parents cannot help their children to develop their moral values because parents do not know how to teach values and direct their children and parents also should be educated in this topic. Sometimes, they can make mistakes in terms of being a good model and misdirect their children’s future behaviors. For example, some drivers cross red lines when there are no cops around. Sometimes they do not slow down when they are approaching a pedestrian lane even if they see that a person is crossing pedestrian lane. This kind of events can cause accidents due to the fact that lack of moral values.

   

     In conclusion, schools provide moral education for youth because parents cannot teach the values their children properly. With a good education which schools provided, children can distinguish what is right or wrong, so they can reflect good behaviors to their social life and they can make a decision between good and bad behaviors. Briefly, schools and specialists who will lead children have an important role to teach children moral values.