Essay On Civic Education

First of all, providing more civic educations by primary schools and secondary schools are needed. Civic education is very important to the students; it helps students to build up a correct system of value, attitude and sense of citizenships (Tse, 1997). In order to help students to build up positive moral values especially focusing the appropriate behaviors, schools should arrange more civic education to the students. Nowadays in Hong Kong, most of the schools mainly focus on the academic results of the students due to the mainstream’s value in Hong Kong is getting a well-paid job in their future as a success. But the schools neglect the moral values of the students as they think there is nothing important than the academic results of the students, the civic education will not consider as a syllabus of learning.

It can find out schools didn’t sense how important civic education is. As the schools didn’t mention the ethical issues to the students, so the students may not know the whether the behaviors is illegal or not. Under sociological imagination, thieves committing crimes because they didn’t have a correct system of moral values while they were learning, they don’t care they are behaved illegally. To dealing with the theft, schools should provide the civic education as a regular subject and the teachers should serve as model to the students because socialization is effective to the students so that the students’ moral values can be taught and the students will know that theft is an illegal