Moral Values Essays

by Fahad

The older generations tend to have very traditional ideas about how people should live, think and behave. However, some people believe that these ideas are not helpful in preparing younger generations for modern life.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?

Nowadays, life has been changed dramatically due to technological developments. Many orthodox ways of spending lives have become obsolete and outdated. Some people are still stick to their traditions and cultures and are very reluctant to accept new and modern ways of lives. However, some people state that in order to compete with the current challenges, we should train our younger generation with the latest and trendy ideas.

Firstly, people like to live in joint family system for the rest of their life. This gives them opportunity to learn from their ancestor about various aspect of life. There is always a special place for elder, younger like to obey and respect them and followed their instructions. Such kind of love and respect is hard to see in modern life style. Adults become more independent, showing less respect towards their parents decisions and other aspect of life.

Secondly, there has been an element of care for their family and other members of the society in the past. Now, everyone first think about their own benefit and less likely to care about others. By this I mean that new ideas contribute in making our generation selfish and egoist.

Thirdly, there is a significant change in people behavior in modern world; they have less patience while doing any work. They have become lazier and more opted towards shortcuts and less mean of work.

Finally, I strongly believe that traditional ways for preparing younger generation is idle and have many in-deniable benefits than modern ways of handling youngster.

Teaching Cildren to be Good Members of Society

by Hana

Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the place to learn this.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

There are different opinions about the ways to teach children to be good members of society. Some people think that it must be from their parents, while others believe that it should be from the schools. In my opinion, the best way teaching the children’s role in the society is from both, the parents and the schools, because of two reasons.

First, the time which the children spend with their parents or the teachers is not enough for learning from only one of two choices. The children have only about eight hours each day in the school, while they have the remaining hours with their parents Therefore, it will be more efficient, if the children can learn their role of the society from all day activities.

Second, learning from the parents or the teachers give different sense of acknowledgement. There are different environment and different way of teaching. Family is a small society that the children can learn the basic manner of the society before facing other people. Moreover, the parents, who have fed their children since they have been born, will know the best method to teach and make their children paying attention. While, the schools are the place giving other learning experience because of bigger society. In the school, the children will meet new friends and teachers. Thus, they could learn how to be good people of the society by the experience when they spend the time with their friends. Then, the teachers are the one who teach and advise what the good things that the children should do are.

In conclusion, the most efficient way to teach the children how to be good people of the society should be from the parents and the school altogether. The reason is that the time spending in both places and the different way of recognition.

Being Taught Morals by Teachers or Parents

by Drape
(Italy)

Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the place to learn this.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Nowadays, it’s up to debate whether the children should be thought how to become good members of society by the parents or school. This essay is going to discuss different views on the subject.

To begin, some people may argue that knowing how to be a good citizen is part of education and, as a result of that, schools should be the institutions charged of the role of teaching these rules; however, being school already part of the society, I strongly believe that the parents should be worried about the behavior of their children and as a consequence of that, they should be the first ones to teach how to integrate in society by following basic rules of common sense.

Although this point of view should be shared by the majority of people, it’s sometimes claimed that children spend most of their time at school studying subjects that don’t have real applications in life, thus part of these hours should be devoted to improving the behavior. In addition to that, parents tend to spend less time each day with their sons because of work, therefore the few moments shared together with family should be enjoyable and not about teaching. On the other hand, teachers are paid full time to educate children so they have to set parents free from this duty.

All in all, both parents and schools need to cooperate to accomplish the mission of education in the best way, thus more time should be spent talking about the correct behavior of a good citizen.

Essay - Teaching Children to be Good Members of Society

by Ridma
(Sri Lanka)

Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others however believe that school is the place to learn this.

Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

Every parent wish to see their children to be a valuable member in the society. To be a good member of the society, children have to get good education and some social experiences too. In our society some people claim that parents are the most responsible people to make the children that way need to society. Conversely, some are believe that this should be done by the schools.

A person who lives according to norms and customs of the society, gives contribution to maintain wealth of that society and gives service to it's members is called the perfect member of that society.As we heard, the first school for a child is the home and the first teachers are parents. There are lot of things that child learn from home and parents. Love and affection, human interaction, norms and customs is learned from home. Socialization begins in the hoe and parents teach children, the way should behave in society. Things that learned in childhood become a part of personality development and have a lasting impressions on them. Kids by nature mimic the parents. Hence, parents have great ability and responsibility on convert their children to good person.

On the other hand, increasing business of day to day life parents have not sufficient time to spend with children.Therefore schools also take some responsibilities regarding this matter. School is the second home for children and teachers are the second parents. Most kids are very close to their teachers. They follow things what they learned in the schools as rules. Schools can teach disciplines to children. School is the place that guide the child reach to valuable position in the future.

It is evident from all discussions that both arguments carry equal strength and significances and neither can be refuted outright. Therefore I strongly believed that both parents and school have equal responsibility to make child a good member to society.

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IELTS Essay - Old Fashioned Values

by Roscoe
(Hong Kong)

A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

It is pity to see a person’s worth nowadays to be judged according to social status and material possessions. The values like honor and kindness seems to become obsolete. I disagree the above opinion based on the following two points.

A person’s worth should be determined by how much effort someone has contributed to society within his or her capabilities. For instance, Ming Gor, who is a restaurant owner in Sham Shui Po, has been delivering free box meals to grassroots and poor elderly for almost 10 years. Despite he is not rich or privileged, he does gain lots of respects from others regardless of their political backgrounds because he is helping needy people in the society with his limited capability. People expect someone with greater powers should benefit the society with larger extent. Therefore, if someone is doing favor of the society in exceeding his powers or capability, they will be praised for their sacrifice and effort.

Moreover, a person’s worth depends on if he or she has caused any harms to surroundings regardless of their social status and possessions. The harms are not only referring to tangible or physical damages instead it could be something psychological and spiritual in nature. Some politicians received high wages and possessed more privileges than others, yet they did not gain the respect and trusty from others instead discontent and hatred filling the space. Their behavior may even jeopardize the core values and harmony of the city and eventually turn it into more divided and desperate. As a result, people do not consider those people are worthy for society and hope them disappear themselves in the long way.

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