Is it true that morality can be positively instilled into the minds of the children through education? This paper addresses itself to such kinds of questions. This paper is an attempt to find out whether it is really possible to develop the children morally by using education as a means to achieve it. The process of Education can be regarded as old as mankind. As very rightly said by Mahatma Gandhi, “By education I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man-body, mind and spirit.” Education has been recognized by a number of thinkers as a manifold process of aiding the individual to come into full possession of all the adjustment of man to his environment, which means his/her adaptation to and reconstruction of his/her surroundings for their own benefit and that of the society. The moral aim of education according to Johann Friedrich Herbart should be to train the child to recognize moral values. Moreover, Gandhi also stressed on morality in the sense of character building. He believes in the fact that the various innate and acquired powers should be so as to bring about complete development or perfection of nature. Aristotle also declared that, “Educated men are much superior to uneducated as the living are to the dead.” Thus, the sole aim of this paper is to regard education as a means of achieving psychological and moral development of the school-going children.
