Unethical practices can lead to disastrous consequences
SUKKUR: While our education system is conducive to knowledge, I find it surprising that the subject of ethics is not being taught. A few decades back teachers used to teach the importance of moral values. Students were taught the importance of being courteous and disciplined despite the subject not being a part of syllabus. Today, government schools seem acutely indifferent to what is happening in the modern world. Private schools, while trying to get better of one another, impose more and more books on students. Now the efficiency of a school is judged by the bags of students. The more school bags are stuffed with heavy books the more the prestige of the school. What is more worrisome is the lack of interest on the part of teachers to impart the values of ethics and morality.
Unethical practices can lead to disastrous consequences. Research shows that in the current technological age, the pressure of life has become comparatively immense. Younger generations are undergoing more stress and are becoming more and more anti-social. No matter how knowledgeable our society becomes in terms of technology if the ethical values of being truthful, well-mannered and tolerant are not transmitted to budding young minds, the desired aims and objectives of education are unlikely to be achieved. Ethics helps to organise the moral, personal, social and professional aspects of life. It is of prime importance to instil ethical values in students.
Riaz Mahar
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2019.
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