Moral Education in Nigerian Secondary Schools and the Challenge of Nation Building

Abstract

The thrust of this paper is to examine the role of teaching moral education in Nigerian secondary schools in national development. The paper argues that there is no education without morality. The study also explains the concepts, the purpose and needs for moral education in Nigerian secondary schools as an effective way for enhancing national development in the country. It upholds that there is need to develop a curriculum on moral education for Nigeria secondary schools for the purpose of national development. It was observed that moral education in Nigeria secondary schools has been left in the hands of Religious instructors alone. However, all teachers irrespective of whatever subject they teach are moral instructors and all school subjects contain moral teachings. The paper recommends that the task before teachers is to identify the moral dimensions in their respective disciplines and make it available to their students for Nigeria's development.