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Moral dilemma: What does it mean in our everyday context:

Moral dilemma is a conflict in which you have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action. Now it is for us to decide on the extent to which morality is important. If it is important, then how it could be taught. If it has to be taught, it should be taught at home or school, or both. Now morality is not a subject on the curriculum of most schools, at least in the sense in which mathematics is. And the only specialists in its structure are moral philosophers. It is often said, too, that willy-nilly every teacher is a teacher of morals. A teacher could teach the child how 'borrowing', is distinct from 'stealing', with classroom experiences, and considerable amount of instruction and explanation.  (Peters, 1974) . For this a regular subject teacher could also play a role to imbibe this cognitive ability in the children. What, then, is to be said about learning the content of morality? Do we have to be concerned only with the

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