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The task of educating children to become useful people is far from easy, especially when parents and educators desire for a comprehensive education for them. Some people believe that to be specialized in each educational task, school should be exclusively responsible for arming children with academic knowledg...e to be ready for job market while others hold onto the idea that moral teaching is also the mission of school. Each idea has its own validity
It is first argued that academic teaching is the main duty of schools while teaching children to behave well is the job of parents. It is by dint of dividing clear responsibilities for both parents and schools that teachers feel less burdened to focus on their specialized task that is to equip children with necessary knowledge to become confident in dealing with challenges in work places. Parents, in the meantime, who stay by their children’s side, from the childhood to adulthood, can understand them more than ever. For that reason, their guidance to follow social moral codes to make sure their kids get along with others is sensible. Others, however, point out the fact that so busy with parents are nowadays with their own career pursuit that some of them make light of inculcating proper codes of behavior in their children whereas some of them are factually not yet good examples for their kids to learn. How could parents who are drunkards or gamblers be fully qualified for teaching their children to behave ethically? Nowhere can kids find their orientation in their thought and behavior more effectively in their teachers’ advice and instructions at school.
Another reason, nevertheless, in support of the former idea is that moral teaching is the subject children should be imbued through their practical experience in the later life. What their teachers impart about morality at school is sometimes theoretical and proves burdensome for them who are already exhausted in the completion of homework at school. Yet, no sooner do kids graduate from their schools than they begin to undergo extreme depression when faced that fact that they can hardly find themselves at ease with other people from all walks of life despite their wealth of knowledge. The truth is to achieve the common goal, there needs more than academic knowledge itself, but rather teamwork, leadership and others which they were unfortunately deprived if this policy ran into reality. At the same time, to lessen the curriculum overload in all these subjects, teachers can flexibly mix moral and academic teaching. For instance, through the lessons on literature, moral behavior can be highlighted, and by that way, kids can deeply remember and naturally absorb moral behavior.
All in all, each view has its own reason, and my belief is that the harmonious combination of these subjects might be the best choice.
