Can Ethics, Values, Religion, Truthfulness be taught in the class?

Can Ethics, Values, Religion, Truthfulness be taught in the class?

Around the world, when one survey was conducted, there were various opinions came out on this issue. Any how this is a perennial debate and that too since time immemorial.
The opinios are put in short over here:
1. Can't be taught,
2. Can be taught,
3. Can't say,
4. Some basics has to be taught and rest should depend on interest,
5. There is no moral as such in this world,
6. It is job of parents and seniors,
7. Guru is required,
8. As you grow elder, it becomes your self conscious decision,
9. Everyone must undergo military education and moral science must be part of that,
10. We don't believe in god and all those moral issues, as, it favours only few people,
11. Don't involve me in this tedious debate.

In fact, my colleague had rightly said, "Once we teach ethics and moral sciences why should there be invigilator in the class where the examination is conducted for this paper?"
Everyone laughed at him but it is true.

E.g. 1. I know people like me, even if there is no invigilator we'll not copy or ask some answer to some one in the examination / paper writing hall.

E.g. 2: We know as a teacher, if we leave the exam hall there would be few people who will either ask or make some visible exchange of answer for short questions like match the pairs, etc.

E.g. 3: We have heard situations where people copied and got passed and got escaped from the code of conduct from higher authorities. In fact there was a live news some years back on some news channel showing people copying in some examination, but, authorities were helpless.

E.g. 4: After the Enron incidence people have started discussing CODEX seriously.
Try to visit following URLs:

How to create value?:
Dr. C.K. Prahlad: http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/apr/22prah1.htm

Global Business Standards (GBS) Codex:

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_subscriber=false&referer=/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp&reason=unknown&productId=R0512H&ml_action=get-executive-summary&articleID=R0512H

Codex for Research:
http://www.codex.vr.se/codex_eng/codex/om.html
http://www.codex.vr.se/codex_eng/codex/index.html
http://www.codex.vr.se/codex_eng/codex/oversikter/etik/etik.html
www.angelfire.com/tx3/wstrickland/BIC/BIC_Editorial_Feb_06.pdf


Thus, it is a debatable issue since long, whether Ethics could be taught. However, no one is against the ethics. As people know, if there are no ethics left on this earth, the humanity will not survive.

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Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude,
ashish.urkude@gmail.com