To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Education

Society reflects our education, thus I believe it is of utmost importance that we consider moral education as one of the priorities in teaching. To kill a mockingbird chart’s Scout’s and Jem’s moral education and it describes different themes about morals and morality, such as courage, hope and fairness. Our educational system equip students with formal knowledge of different subjects, yet it doesn’t teach children morality (Vishal, 2012). As a future teacher, I believe I should model Atticus in the way he teaches his children essential things about life, thus in the way he manages to teach them morality.

Maycomb, in the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was a town which surely reflected unfairness through poverty, racism and social out casting.

I believe that one of the most important characteristics of being a successful teacher is to be fair and to treat students equally, regardless of their race, gender, social class, etc. Appreciating and understanding the concept of fairness is important for young children at an early age, and this can be taught through applying rules and consistently treating everyone with respect and tolerance. In a society we can’t expect adults to be fair when they’ve been brought up in an unfair system, thus as teachers, we should mirror what we expect of our future generation… to be

By standing up for what he believed in, and confronting his challenges and fears, Atticus as many other characters in the story showed admirable courage in many different occasions. One of the fears I find in teaching is the fact that sometimes I am not able to meet the needs of my students, or to teach challenging topics. Yet, it is only by teaching those things that I fear and to face the different challenges that I face everyday in school, that I can grow as a teacher. Children as much as teachers, require courage in learning and in different instances in the classroom, thus in order for them to acquire knowledge students need to overcome their fears (Loui, 2006). Courage is not a ‘man with a gun in his hand’, therefore it is not physical courage, but moral courage which, although more complicated and difficult to enact, it is ‘real courage’. Louis (2006) argues that class teachers should provide children the opportunities to express courage in different situations and by posing them to new challenges. Children should be given a chance to ask questions and to express their thoughts and concerns, even if for some this main mean to display a lack of knowledge and information. Students learn to grow only by facing reasonable risks and put their efforts to ‘see it through no matter