Schools for intelligence & morality

Schools for intelligence & morality

From Suara Karya

The success of an education system should be seen not only in the intellectual caliber of school graduates, but also in their daily conduct in different fields of life.

They should show a positive attitude, good moral conduct, concern about humanitarian issues, tolerance without egoism, appreciation for dissent and pluralism, hard work. They should shun exclusivism and religious fanaticism, uphold human rights, respect elders and protect the weak.

Some private schools seem to pay proper attention to the above, but they are few in number. In terms of intellectual agility, the results can be seen by the fact that their graduates are able to enter popular universities and achieve good results in various contests, such as the recent physics olympiad.

The success of several private schools in enhancing their students' intelligence as well as morality is due to their sense of responsibility and their curriculum, which provides both academic subjects, as well as moral education and character building. Therefore, graduates of these schools are no less than their peers from state run institutions.

In this context, it seems necessary to make such moral, ethical and character molding courses mandatory in all schools, so that the attitude and behavior of their students and graduates will be beneficial for their future as individuals and as citizens.

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