Those who think moral education is religious education claim that it should be based on divine law, those who think moral education is to internalize traditional virtues what are said by saints from olden times claim that it should be based on virtues...
Those who think moral education is religious education claim that it should be based on divine law, those who think moral education is to internalize traditional virtues what are said by saints from olden times claim that it should be based on virtues, and those who think moral education is to cultivate the capacity of moral problem solving claim that it should be based on moral reasoning. While divine law and virtues are concrete ``content``, moral reasoning is ``form``. Moral education based on divine law and virtues depends on transmitting them to children and accepting authorities, but moral education based on moral reasoning depends on moral justification produced from a set of procedures and methods. Those stories supplied by writers are proper materials to use for understanding the concept of the good and the evil and recognizing people`s emotions and feelings, while the process of moral problem solving consisted of a set of moral components is proper procedures and methods to use for moral reasoning and ``form`` approach. (The moral components are : concern for other people as equals, awareness of feelings and emotions in other people, knowledge of the hard facts relevant to moral situations, and knowing non-propositional skills in dealing with people, noticing, thinking and deciding moral problems, and translating the decisions into action.) However, moral education will be more effective when different methods are, under cross-reference, properly used according to different aspect of morality, because morality is an integrative whole consisted of different aspects, that is, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects.