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Assalamualaikum wr. wb
Good morning, everyone. It's my pleasure to be here this sunny morning to meet all of you who
share the commitment to promote moral education to children. First of all, let us express our
gratitude towards the Almighty for His endless blessings so that we all can be together here in good
condition and health.
Guys, one’s character is very important for one’s life and others’. Why? It is because characters are
related to morality. When one has good morals, he treats himself and others very well. The
formation of one’s character begins from his childhood. It can be said that parents are children’s first
moral educators. Although moral education can be learned everywhere, such as at home, school,
college, and workplace, children learn ethical education more at home than in any other place. That
is why parents have an important role in building their children’s characters.
The development of morality is a significant aspect of the formation of good character. A good
character is needed to build a good society. The moral aspect is ironically often neglected by society
and even the state. To prove this point, let’s take a look at the educational programs in our country.
Our educational system only focuses on intellectual education. It is compulsory for students to get
good grades. Principles that moral education teaches, like honesty, tolerance, kindness, sympathy,
love, etc are often ignored. It is our duty to balance out the intellectual education and moral
education.
As we know, children are excellent observers. They by nature like to imitate things they observe.
Thus, moral education is given best by examples. Instead of only asking them to behave well, it is
more effective to teach children what good etiquette is and how to behave well by being a person
with a good attitude ourselves. It would be no use if we advise our children to have good behavior
while we never show them what good behavior is. That is why it is necessary that teachers of moral
education are people of good character so that the students can absorb their good qualities.
In short, just like intellectual education, moral education is also important and the process takes a
lifetime. We should get ourselves ethical education first before we can teach moral to our children.
Building moral values and attitudes to our children takes time and effort. This is not an easy task, but
we should determine to rise to the challenge.
Oke guys i think enough and this is the end of my speech. Thank you so much for your time and
attention. Wassalamualaikum wr wb
