THE CHURCH

And its Impact in Education

 Morality
• The Church and Morality
• This ‘necessary connection’ view centres on any attempt to equate concepts
like ‘morally good’ with ‘according to God’s will or purposes’.
• Morals and Values are greatly influenced by the Church
• Morals, or morality, have to do with human behaviour
• It is about what ought to be done, as distinct from what is in fact
done.
• It has to do with influencing behaviour and this presupposes a
certain amount of knowledge to be acquired by the pupil.
• At the lowest logical level there are moral
practices, like telling the truth, keeping
promises and paying debts.
• At a logically higher level there are moral theories,
which try to give a general account of, or a
justification of, conclusions about what ought to be
done in practice.
• In its strongest form, the conviction would be that
moral and religious teaching are essential to
education, in that education is not really possible
without them.
• The moral philosopher is concerned with the actual usage
of moral language, with concepts like ‘good’ and ‘right’
and ‘duty’, and with the validity and acceptability of
theories which are offered to justify moral decisions and
judgments.
• The view that morals and education are necessarily
connected springs partly from the belief that education is
the initiation of a pupil into areas of knowledge and
understanding which are themselves valuable.
• The implication here, more often stated than argued, is
that the value, or worthwhileness, involved is a moral
quality, so that when one is teaching mathematics or
science or history one is serving a moral end.
• The real relevance of ‘worthwhileness’ to
morality here is that no subject would be
regarded as worthwhile in the educational
sense if it is immoral
• It is claimed that morals, like religion, is one of these
ways of understanding the human situation, and that
without an entry into these specific areas a man lacks the
basis for rationality of this particular kind.
• ‘Properly
educated’ means, amongst other things,
having had some moral training.
 Desirable Part of Education

• Moral education is a constituent part of the enterprise of

education, and necessary in the practical sense that
without it education is not complete.
• has to do with influencing behavior and this presupposes
a certain amount of knowledge to be acquired by the
pupil.
• ESP / GMRC
• Since moral education is closely linked with moral
training, a person who was fully educated, morally, would
be one who not only knew what he ought to do and why
he ought to do it, but was also disposed to act
consistently in the light of this knowledge.
• Education is regarded as a predominantly ‘moral’
enterprise.
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