Moral education aims at promoting students’ moral development and character formation. A range of teaching, learning and pedagogical techniques are proposed with emphasis on the specific domain of moral education to foster morals, values and ethics in students’ minds and develop various skills and attributes necessary for success in life. Moral education is essential for building a moral society, and it is the conscious effort to cultivate virtue. The psychological components of moral education encompass the cognitive, affective, and behavioural aspects of morality such as, moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral action.

Good character consists of the virtues where virtues are objectively good human qualities such as, wisdom, honesty, kindness, and self‐discipline. Virtues provide a standard for defining good character. Thus the more virtues we possess, the stronger our character. Moral education focuses on moral concepts, manners and civility, and shapes students’ personality, values, attitudes and habits in their development.
Families, societies and religious institutions had the authority to teach character and morals, and religion was the only potential source of morality, values and ethics. The school’s role is to develop moral citizens, and focus on moral and character development, teaching of civics and development of citizenship skills and dispositions. The proper nurturing of intellectual honesty in students’ minds will help to enrich their faculty of knowledge, morality, values and ethics. It is important that teachers emphasise moral education to develop virtues, quality attributes, personality and leadership in students. Moral education is mainly required in the early school years when young students are at the stages of developing their own world views.
Teachers can guide and instruct properly so that students acquire good habits of honesty, courage and fairness from parents, guardians or teachers who themselves should display such virtues. And teachers can explore the scope of formal educational opportunities to inform and exercise the reflection, slow and careful consideration.
Integration of moral values/moral value aspects : Hard working and responsibility, punctuality and time consciousness, personal integrity, abstaining from drug abuse, eve teasing, robbery, extortion, drug trade, abduction and trafficking, obedient to the seniors, humility, respect, kindness and forgiveness, charity and justice, personal integrity, respecting rights and privileges of others, respecting cultural and moral values, dignity for each individual, sound moral judgment, working under minimal supervision, national unity, active participation in government affairs. Moral value refers to values such as justice, courage, honesty, truth telling, generosity, compassion, self-control, respect for the interests of others, responsibility, cooperation, compassion, alleviation of suffering, prevention of harm, or reduction of poverty.  
Moral values have to be taught to the students by an education at educational institutions and also at their house. Teachers, parents and also the students have to work together to create a caring relationship between them. There are several strategies to teach moral values to the students, such as character building programme which the activities arranged to increase the students’ emotional quotient, caring school community which the activities arranged to create a caring relationship between teachers-students and integrative ethical education model which is for moral character development: supportive climate, ethical skills, apprenticeship instruction, self-regulation and adopting a developmental system approach.
With rapid technological, economic and cultural change, educational institutions will have to develop a variety of means to morally stimulate adolescents and make them committed to moral action. Moral education is whatever schools do to influence how students think, feel, and act regarding issues of right and wrong. The function of educational institutions, it was believed, was not only to make people smart but also to make them good. The return of moral education to the limelight is attributable to the fact that modern societies increasingly have to deal with disturbing trends both within schools, and in the wider society.
Moral education is a national movement creating educational institutions that foster ethical, responsible and caring young people by modeling and teaching good character through emphasis on universal values that we all share. It is the intentional, proactive effort by school, societies, and states to instill in their students important core, ethical values such as caring, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect for self and others specially respect to women and children. Moral education is teaching student about human values and virtues, including honesty, kindness, generosity, courage, freedom, equality, and respect to everyone. The goal is to raise student to become morally responsible, self-disciplined citizens.
It is important to know that moral values are important to be taught to the students because moral values have a significant impact on the students’ achievement and behaviour. And hope by the teaching of moral values, the students can learn what they will, they can differentiate what is good or bad, they can solve the problem of their life. Moral education is the deliberate effort to develop good character based on core virtues that are good for the individual and good for society after all to the country. It is any deliberate approach by which school personnel, often in conjunction with parents and community members help student become caring, principled, responsible and sophisticated generation who will lead the country in future.

The writer is Research Officer, District Education Office, Secondary and Higher Education, Munshiganj