Moral and ethic education is very important for social welfare, if the decrease in social morality is to cause problem in the society such as violence, conflict, drug-use, school-drop out, crime, robbery and so on. Strengthening and expanding social morality education is a key factor for social happiness and life-style.
On the contrary, the current social morality is decreasing day by day, especially amongst youths, students. Losing morality is a losing of human being’s quality. At the present time, some students do not respect their teachers until threatening and beating teachers; it is like the case of teacher in Banteay Meanchey province.
(Photo: Khmer Daily newspaper, Reaksmey Kampuchea)
Prime Minister’s wife, Bun Rany, expressed her concerns over the decrease of the social actions by saying that:
Negative social actions, vices, and cases of rape – for example fathers raping their daughters, grandfathers raping their granddaughters – are on the increase. She stressed that this is really a problem. Such immoral acts were not part of the Cambodian time-honored tradition. She added that this is not a problem that we should ignore, it is a national issue. Some people understand that social developments make people act like that. She raised the question whether society leads the people, or whether people lead the society; whether people educate the society, or society educates the people. If the society leads the people, it means that it is a good society, but people may lead a good society to deteriorate. She continued to say that according to her idea, it is always some people who lead a society to deteriorate.
If a society is practicing high core of conducts, high social morality, therefore society will be no wars, no killing, no violence, no prejudices, no ill-treatment, no ill-will, no conflict, no exploitation of human, peaceful society and so on.
Dear Vutha,
It is so wonderful to see you comment on the decline of social ethics in Cambodia. My name is Chanroeun PA, I am the director of Cambodian Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics and a lecturer in Philosophy and Culture at the Cambodian Mekong University. It is nice to hear that many people are concern about ethical issues in Cambodia. Please give us some suggestions on how to promote ethical values in Cambodia.
Here is the website of CAMCAPE http://www.camcape.org
With best wishes,
Chanroeun
Yeah, i agree of what you said on this article vutha. It is very helpful and constructive ideas.
Thank you for the well-structured ideas.
We know that we are now living in a cathc22 situation where every bad effect influences each other!
We can’t have children behave well if we cant’have teachers perform their teaching well either. As for parents, children grow up seeing their faces first before other people. What can parents do to set very good samples for their children?