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Teachers - Synonyms Link to heading

Teachers / instructors / supervisors / tutors / lecturers / educators / educationists / mentors

Students - Synonyms Link to heading

Students / youngsters / young men / teenagers / the youth / juveniles / descendants / minors / learners / pupils

Education - Example Sentences Link to heading

Ensure students’ intellectual growth and success: This refers to the responsibility of educators to facilitate the development of students’ cognitive abilities and ensure their academic achievement. It involves not only imparting knowledge but also fostering critical thinking, problem-solving skills, creativity, and a lifelong love for learning.

Be confined to imparting academic lessons to students/ focus on the school curriculum/ impart bookish knowledge to someone: These phrases suggest a limited approach to education that primarily involves teaching students the academic content outlined in a school curriculum. It often refers to traditional methods of teaching where the emphasis is on rote learning and memorisation of information from textbooks.

Moral - Vocabularies Link to heading

Moral education / Moral educators: Moral education is the process of helping children acquire virtues or moral habits that will help them live good lives and become productive members of their communities. Moral educators are those who teach or facilitate moral education. They help students develop a set of beliefs and values regarding what is right and wrong.

To be morally bankrupt: have no morals at all

  • To be morally ambiguous: not certain about whether something is right or wrong
  • To be morally reprehensible: morally wrong and deserving criticism
  • To have moral turpitude: engage in a conduct that does not fall within the community’s moral standards, which shocks the public conscience (e.g. paedophilia)

To have a clear conscience: have done nothing bad or wrong

  • To have a moral compass: capable of distinguishing between right and wrong

To be morally superior: one’s moral standards are of higher quality than those of others

  • To have a moral obligation: have a duty to do something because of their personal moral beliefs
  • To have a moral dilemma: a situation where you have to make a difficult decision between two or more moral values, but can only choose one
  • To have the moral courage: stand up and act according to moral beliefs when faced with a dilemma (e.g. report a family member committing a crime)
  • To have the moral authority: have the trustworthiness to make decisions that are right and good
  • To have the moral fibre: capable of determine to do what you think is right
  • To have moral clarity: (= to have a moral compass)
  • To have moral decay: a gradual erosion of ethical principles and values (e.g. used to go against shoplifting, but now commit it due to poverty)
  • To have moral relativism: hold the view that whether moral judgements are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (e.g. of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others
  • To have moral outrage: an intense feeling of anger and shock in response to immoral action
  • To have a moral hazard: engage in a risky behaviour which benefits you, but disadvantages others or others will bear the cost of that behaviours
  • To have a moral panic: widespread fear or concern over the moral values of society / an issue threatening the moral standards of society

Moral - Example Sentences Link to heading

  • The responsibility of families and religious institutions: families and religious institutions often play key roles in shaping an individual’s values and beliefs, including their understanding of morality
  • The responsibility for inculcating manners and morality in someone: the duty of teaching someone, often a child, about appropriate behaviour and ethical conduct
  • Develop one’s moral compass and understand the importance of ethical conduct
  • Develop compassion, empathy, and a sense of responsibility towards others
  • Develop a strong sense of integrity and social responsibility
  • Foster in the young morally sound values and outlook on the world and life
  • Mould an individual perspective and compel one to rights and wrongs in their life
  • Instil moral values in someone: instil (= to gradually put an idea or attitude into somebody’s mind)
  • Build young learner’s virtues
  • Integrate discussions on ethics and values into one’s lessons
  • Navigate the complexities of right and wrong
  • Prompt critical thinking about moral dilemmas and ethical choices
  • Understand the ethical implications of one’s actions
  • Provide a nurturing environment for open discussions and moral reflections
  • Nurture in children a sense of responsibility, civic-mindedness, a rule-abiding spirit, and acceptance of basic social values and norms
  • Shape students’ character and values/ ethics and morality
  • Create future citizens with good conduct and morality
  • Assist children’s socialisation and personality development
  • Support someone to behave judiciously (= carefully and sensibly; in a way that shows good judgement)
  • Character and righteousness-building subjects
  • To be burdened with taking on children’s morality-development responsibilities
  • Consider someone as one’s role model/ build up a role model for someone
  • Establish adequate ethical perspectives, a correct judgemental foundation, and well-socialised behaviours
  • Maintain parity between the pedagogy system and the upbringing of the minors
  • Make light of inculcating proper codes of behaviour in someone
  • Flexibly mix moral and academic teaching => deeply remember and naturally absorb moral behaviour