ABSTRACT
School education and the moral education taking place in schools reflect the way social needs have been defined and social pressures negotiated in the concerned society. These social pressures include pressures of global flows, and hence prompt most societies to try to put up ‘gates’ to regulate the perceived ‘alien’ or global influence in order to maintain what is deemed native and in order to sufficiently meet and handle what are seen as the needs and challenges of society, global and local. Education therefore is a means to preserve and pass on what we deem important as well as a means to prepare our young for what we see as major opportunities and challenges in present day society and society in the near and not so near future.
