essay - GMAT: Issue 24

Schools should be responsible only for teaching academic skills and not for teaching ethical and social values.

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

Answer:
The statement that schools should be responsible only for teaching academic skills is clearly oversimplified. The extent to which the school emphasizes academic skills depends on the type of school and the grade of the students. Besides, I personally support schools that teach ethical and social values to the students.

The statement is oversimplified. For instance, I believe that at elementary schools teaching ethical and social values should be more emphasized than at universities. Or, at law schools ethical and social values should be taught much more than at specialized technology schools. Above all, I believe that all schools should teach ethical and social values to some extent.

Nowadays, ethical or compliance matter is more and more focused. Enron gave a lot of damage on a lot of stakeholders because the management lacked ethical value. A corruption of Kenyan government was due to the lack of social value of the president. Therefore, in this contemporary era, all people should be equipped with ethical and social value. In other words, all schools should teach ethical and social value to all the students.

To sum up, I believe that the extent to which the school focuses on ethical and social value depends on the kind of the school or the age of the students, and that all schools should teach ethical and social value to the students to some extent.