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The study of ethics is essential for a good education for various reasons. In this essay, I will discuss those reasons in detail and provide examples. For one, it teaches students to become better individuals by teaching them to abide by society’s rules and regulations. It also teaches students to lead by example and be better leaders. Most important of all, it also helps students deal with conflicts in the present and future. Before I start to tell you what the title of paper says above, that is education and business ethics, I will like say something small on ethics and education before I move to the business side of it. An important aspect of education is the process of teaching, training and learning, especially in schools or colleges, to improve knowledge and develop skills. Ethics in education, students often know the right thing to do and how can schools help them accomplish their goals. A student will play follow the leader and not think for themselves. A student, who exhibits academic ethics, demonstrates character in terms of integrity, self-confidence and self-discipline. Many students due to peer pressure and extracurricular activities never learn self-discipline and therefore are not successful in college. Ethics is the “discipline of dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and obligation”. The two words, ethics and education are positively interrelated. They together form a personality that has potent to encourage a seething mass of people into a nation with unity and success. But without ethics, attributes fall alike, strong to weak. If the world 'ethics ' is defined as the science of morals then 'education ' certainly means the harmonious development of our body, mind and soul. Its root meaning is character or manners. The meanings of words throw light on their significance and on the values that tacitly or explicitly inform our lives and guide our actions consciously with equilibrium. It is
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