The Concept of Morality in Education Discourse

Abstract

Morality in the realm of philosophy connotes habits or customs, it is the character of being in accord with the principles or standards of right conduct. This makes morality and education to be related. But there is an opinion that moral education is not a central concern of formal education, this opinion may be logically valid but educationally it looks unacceptable. However, the education premise of the statement looks faulty because nearly all the objectives and enterprises of formal education are directly and indirectly related to the moral sphere, therefore, it looks absurd to separate morality from education. The acceptable consensus that morality is subsumed in the definitions of education is a clear indication that morality and education are logically related. This conceptual paper attempts to explicate the interrelatedness between morality and education and how the two can work harmoniously for the survival of the societies in the world.