Moral Education Crucial To Our Future Leaders

ALLOW me space in your newspaper to express my views on the erosion of moral standards in our schools.

Standards of morality in our schools should be uplifted and enhanced with a view to moulding our learners into candid and transparent future leaders. I was tremendously impressed with the information on corruption given to our learners by the Ombudsman during his visit to our school nearly four weeks ago.The Ombudsman provided us with various booklets and leaflets comprising interesting information on the main root causes of corruption.Interestingly, as I was reading through one of the leaflets containing information on the social causes of corruption, I found out that weak moral standards were amongst the main social contributing factors towards corruption.I thank the Ombudsman for having made our young people aware of the harmful effects of corruption on our society.If corruption is not vigorously tackled by our political, academic, religious, and traditional leaders it will steadily continue to deprive us of a better economic life.In addition, it will deprive our young people of a better education and indeed a better future.There are many gifted young people in our society who would like to realise their dreams, but cannot find bursaries due to corruption.At times bursaries are only offered to the children from affluent families.There are so many people suffering from poverty in this country and therefore we must not keep our mouths shut about corruption.Corruption must be vehemently opposed.While I concur with the President’s consistent call for the promotion of science subjects in our schools, it is vitally important that we instil moral values into our young people.We should see to it that we do not produce leaders whose moral and ethical standards are fragile.Moral education is an important subject as it exposes our learners to a number of current, social, economic and moral cases taking place nationally and internationally.S Sheehama WindhoekI was tremendously impressed with the information on corruption given to our learners by the Ombudsman during his visit to our school nearly four weeks ago.The Ombudsman provided us with various booklets and leaflets comprising interesting information on the main root causes of corruption.Interestingly, as I was reading through one of the leaflets containing information on the social causes of corruption, I found out that weak moral standards were amongst the main social contributing factors towards corruption.I thank the Ombudsman for having made our young people aware of the harmful effects of corruption on our society.If corruption is not vigorously tackled by our political, academic, religious, and traditional leaders it will steadily continue to deprive us of a better economic life.In addition, it will deprive our young people of a better education and indeed a better future.There are many gifted young people in our society who would like to realise their dreams, but cannot find bursaries due to corruption.At times bursaries are only offered to the children from affluent families.There are so many people suffering from poverty in this country and therefore we must not keep our mouths shut about corruption.Corruption must be vehemently opposed.While I concur with the President’s consistent call for the promotion of science subjects in our schools, it is vitally important that we instil moral values into our young people.We should see to it that we do not produce leaders whose moral and ethical standards are fragile.Moral education is an important subject as it exposes our learners to a number of current, social, economic and moral cases taking place nationally and internationally.S Sheehama Windhoek