Should Schools Provide Moral Education for Youth? (Argumentative Essay (1) First Draft)

                                                                                                                     04.05.2014

                                                                                                             Deniz YEŞİLYURT

                                                                                       Argumentative Essay First Draft

                                      Should Schools Provide Moral Education for Youth?

 Moral values have an important role on training the youth who have humanitarian qualifications. Moral values lead to the youth in order to have positive behaviors and to be accepted in the community. Parents are primarily responsible for their children’s moral education. Parents should follow closely children’s behavior development which starts to form from the age of 3-4. Also, they should begin to give children moral values from the age of 7-8 when children begin to understand moral concepts. In fact, children’s moral education starts in the family at first. Despite of this, schools should provide moral education as families are insufficient for it.  

  First, some people may think that moral education should be left to parents and it cannot be provided in the school. They think that school is a place that students learn only things in the books. Actually, schools are places that children start to socialize and to understand what is true or wrong. Individuals can socialize by connecting with other people. In this process, environment is an effective factor to form children’s moral values. When the youth communicate with others, they can learn something such as how to speak in public, how to behave to elders. In the school, students can learn something which they did not learn from parents. Schools are places for not only teaching but also education.

  Second, responsibility awareness has an important role in view of moral education. Everyone has some responsibilities as an individual. Some people say that responsibility awareness is acquired in the family. However, it is acquired in the school thanks to moral education. The youth perform their responsibilities and it materializes as a result of moral education which is provided in the school. For example, students’ tasks which are given by teachers arouse sense of responsibility in students. They are aware of their duties and know that they will be punished if they do not their tasks.  On the other hand, they know that their family will be insightful and will not get angry if they do not their tasks. As a result, youth avoid fulfilling their responsibilities. Therefore, moral education should be provided in the school.

  Third, moral education has an important factor to be conscientious individual. Some people say that children can learn social values and attitudes in the family and can be sensitive to these. Some of children grow up in a family which is not sensitive to these social values. As a result, moral education should be provided in the schools. Thanks to this, individuals can be more sensitive events which happen their around. For example, individual who learnt being fair about any subject in the school can be more conscientious when he/ she comes across any situation.

  To sum up, moral education is a long progress which lasts from birth to death. Even though it starts in the family, it is not left to family. As families are inadequate for children’s moral education, it should be continued in the schools. Children can acquire moral education by socializing, having responsibility and being conscientious. Thanks to school, children can have these facilities which are basic for moral education. Therefore, moral education should be provided in the schools.