Desk News:

A worthwhile education should target the total development of learner’s personality. But in the present system of Bangladesh emphasis has given to transmission of knowledge and cultivation of occupational skills.

This has created a moral vacuum in the life of the individual. Inculcation of desirable values in the upcoming generation is felt essential for finding out answers to so many problems that humanity face today. In Bangladesh moral education is not institutionalized rather individual or family based. The traditional non institutionalized moral education is mainly religion based in Bangladesh.

In primary education region are taught as curriculum that do not cover any formal moral or character education. Religious right is actually opposed to teaching ethical concepts in the public schools unless they get to do it in their own unconstitutional fashion. Many feel that  lack of institutional formal moral and character education in public school and  madrasah’s  is somewhat responsible for many of our society’s problems today, such as increased crime, racial conflict, drug abuse, and sexual promiscuity.

That is why efforts should be made to put such moral instruction back into the schools and other education institute. This issue is to be addressed in priority for developing moral qualities such as humility, truthfulness, honesty, courtesy, tolerance, sacrifice etc. among the youth in Bangladesh.

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Writer:

Professor Dr. Shahiduzzaman

Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202