MORALITY AND EDUCATION: THE PRECURSOR FOR SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION

Abstract

The focus of the work is to analyze the relationship between morality and education, and its implications for social reconstruction. In order to achieve this, qualitative research method was adopted which involves a philosophical analytic technique used to analyze the data collated through secondary sources. It was discovered that education enlightens one to distinguish the 'good' from the 'bad' clearly, for his/her benefit first, and then that of the society. Thus, morality is embedded in education both in principle and practice. If society is to experience reconstruction, citizens should embrace cognitive restructuring, to expel all negative thinking patterns that frustrate individual and social development.