Proper Moral Teachings Lead the Way to Better Ties

Moral education of Confucius teaching has shown a great success in one of the secondary schools in Japan, Edo-chuan Secondary School located in Ibaraki prefecture. The philosophy of Confucius education dates back to ancient Edo period which occupied a prominent position in the society of Japan. Though after the Meiji Japan modernized its country with Westernization idealism, the impact of Confucian culture can be seen everywhere.

Confucius

Confucius is a great teacher. He emphasizes that the moral principles, virtues should be the first lessons taught to children since they were small. The earliest the proper education is given to them, the earliest they are being taught to respect elders, respect brothers and sisters, respect wife and husband, respect the society and finally respect to the country as a whole. By adopting the correct moral teachings to the children, the elders will not have to face the fate of being dumped into an elderly home or left abandoned.

Nowadays, more and more children are having lots of social problems including fighting, crime, murdering, stealing and many of them left school at a very young age. Also, the statistic shows that cases of crimes are arising and at a worrying state. Many primary schools in Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China have started educating small children with the Confucius teachings. And the results from these teachings have successfully cultivated good practices and virtues among the young generations. I suggest other countries to start teaching the youngsters with these teachings as a guide towards a happy life. By doing this, the country will be in harmonization as the young generations respect and bow to the elderly and these old people do not have to face the misfortunate fate just as I described in How often Do We Think about Our Parents when they grow old as their children take good care of their welfare.

A child is reading Di Zi Gui

There are many teachings of Confucius, but here I would like to introduce Di Zi Gui as a fundamental teaching for the youngsters. This book was taught thousand of years ago. In ancient China, people felt that it was important that the child should be well-disciplined and moral conducts, otherwise a child would amount to nothing. By not knowing the dutiful to parents, elderly and teachers, a child would grow up not listening to or respecting anyone. Additionally, teachers are afraid to teach and discipline children because they are fearful of violating the children’s legal rights and being sued by the parents.