How to Impart Moral Education?
Someone may make a sincere effort to inculcate positive qualities in children at school. However, teaching morality without being dogmatic or pedantic is very difficult, unless a suitable method, an effective technique is available, to teach mastery over the mind. Also, being pedantic is likely to be counterproductive, even dangerous. Everyone will agree that there is a need to impart basic values to children, and that morality is a part and parcel of life that leads to one’s own happiness and to the happiness of others. Everyone will agree that mastery over the mind is essential in all human activity; that purification of mind is essential for true peace and happiness, but mere preaching is of no use. There has to be a way where spiritual training can become an integral part of school education. Since, fortunately, children belonging to different sects and different castes study together in schools, this training has to be nonsectarian. Since the problem is universal, the remedy has t
