申論題

We Often Ignore the Moral Education

Researchers suggest that the moral education accounts for less share than the intellectual one when it comes to time or budget distribution. It leads to the following argument - the former one is often mute because we make the most provision for the later one in our system.

The international society has recognized Taiwanese educational system as "the impractical learning approach led by the exam-orientated way of teaching" for decades. We have forced many students to drift in popular majors and turned our noses up at individual characteristics, for example, the practical, technical and vocational values. These poor pupils receive parental pressure unidirectionally and try to attend their favorite school; therefore, they would be even willing to cheat or to conduct plagiarism for getting better grades.

On the other hand, many argue that the latter one not be perfect but better than any other regimes failing to educate our children, including the former. If we get rid of the notorious but useful means, we could not only help with the former but could also lose a lot of the objective benefit of selecting suitable schoolchildren for each school. Our perspective does not dismiss the importance of being smart.

However, "It is much difficult to be good than to be smart" as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said. The former one is aimed to let our next generation be good, not the current problem, "be seemingly smart in the egghead system." As a whole, we need to highlight the negligence of value education.