Importance of moral education and values in modern era

Abstract

Moral education has always been a significant and a highly valued aim of education. It was believed
that was not only to make people smart but also to make them good. The return of moral education to
the limelight is attribute to the fact that modern society increasingly have to deal with disturbing trends
both within sections and in the wider society. Mounting discipline problems, culminating in violent
outbursts, alarming rate of rapes, drug abuse and corruption deeply rooted in society are the
phenomenon often explained.
Traditionalists argues to return to some good old ways of learning , at the other extreme some argue
that rather than teaching values, adults have to model desirable behavior to help children become
morally autonomous adults.