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In the spirit of receiving true feeback, Iam not even correcting the known grammatical and logical mistakes in the composition. Pardon me if it is not readable. Appreciate honest feedback. Thanks
Topic:
"schools should be responsible to only for teaching academic skills and not for teaching ethical and social values"
Response:
The issue of whether schools should be a place for teaching ethical and social values is a controversial topic. I support the position that schools should restrict their "teachings" to academic skills and should provide a "practicing" environment to develop ethical and social skills in its students.
The primary reason for my position is my belief that ethical and social values are usually not taught, they are practiced. Ethical and social values are very subjective in natur, with no clear rights or wrongs. These are choices an individual makes during the course of a life time.
When it comes to academic skills development, most often, there is no ambiguity in what is being taught. Let us take for example physical sciences, mathematics, languages or fine arts. Here there is a clearly established right and a clearly established wrong. We cannot say the same about someone's social obligation to the poor. This is a very ambiguous and a open topic with many "rights". No one can teach the other about what should be our approach to the poor, without influencing his/her own thoughts into the minds of the student.
Some of the moral science classes I had taken part during my school days made me realize that the extent to which ethical values are taught in school were very limited to the value system of a particular teacher. It was taught in a rigid manner and often had elements of inflexibility that
were detremental for someone to operate in an increasing diverse world today.
A better approach would be for schools to restrict their teachings to only acadmic skills and have schools act as an environment to "nurture" social and ethical skills, without any emphasis on a hard teaching flavour. Such an environment offers the necessary flexibility and freedom to students to understand and practice what appears right to them, be flexible to understand someone who does not share the same value system, and be truthful to the belief system after accepting a set of values as right.
In the spirit of receiving true feeback, Iam not even correcting the known grammatical and logical mistakes in the composition. Pardon me if it is not readable. Appreciate honest feedback. Thanks
Topic:
"schools should be responsible to only for teaching academic skills and not for teaching ethical and social values"
Response:
The issue of whether schools should be a place for teaching ethical and social values is a controversial topic. I support the position that schools should restrict their "teachings" to academic skills and should provide a "practicing" environment to develop ethical and social skills in its students.
The primary reason for my position is my belief that ethical and social values are usually not taught, they are practiced. Ethical and social values are very subjective in natur, with no clear rights or wrongs. These are choices an individual makes during the course of a life time.
When it comes to academic skills development, most often, there is no ambiguity in what is being taught. Let us take for example physical sciences, mathematics, languages or fine arts. Here there is a clearly established right and a clearly established wrong. We cannot say the same about someone's social obligation to the poor. This is a very ambiguous and a open topic with many "rights". No one can teach the other about what should be our approach to the poor, without influencing his/her own thoughts into the minds of the student.
Some of the moral science classes I had taken part during my school days made me realize that the extent to which ethical values are taught in school were very limited to the value system of a particular teacher. It was taught in a rigid manner and often had elements of inflexibility that
were detremental for someone to operate in an increasing diverse world today.
A better approach would be for schools to restrict their teachings to only acadmic skills and have schools act as an environment to "nurture" social and ethical skills, without any emphasis on a hard teaching flavour. Such an environment offers the necessary flexibility and freedom to students to understand and practice what appears right to them, be flexible to understand someone who does not share the same value system, and be truthful to the belief system after accepting a set of values as right.
