2. The basis of moral education makes ethics (from the Greek. Ethika - habit, custom) - the science that studies morality, the established order, the norms of human behavior.

At the present stage there are two ethical (moral) system. The first system dominates in Western Europe and America. According to it, to achieve even a "great good" can not be allowed "a little evil" (f.e. to help a friends, handing him a cheat sheet). For fans of the second (by the way, it is the main one on the post Soviet area) a combination of good and evil is quite acceptable.

The principles and moral norms regulate the relationship of people to each other, to society, state and family. During the development of the society people's moral principles and concepts of good and evil, justice changed.

In the current conditions the general human values come to the foreground, there the morality begins to take its place and is becoming the most important behavior regulator.

For centuries, people created and perfected certain moral and ethical norms:

 respect and love to free work. The sacred right to free labour was fought for by people for centuries. In his work he defended the honour and dignity that’s why the foundation of folk pedagogy became the labour education;

 features of high citizenship is one of the wonderful features that united the Ukrainian people who loved their motherland, their homeland. People understood perfectly that only by joint forces their dreams could be achieved. Therefore such values as collectivism, mutual assistance, sworn brotherhood became firmly convinced. Sworn brotherhood became firmly convinced. Sworn brotherhood never stopped in Ukraine and was considered to be a sacred treasure. It was especially usual with Zaporizhzhya Cozacks. Wonderful means to strengthen patriotic feelings were thoughts, legends, fairy-tales, songs…

 strengthening the ideals of beauty, goodness, humanity. There was a custom to pay good for good, but who broke it, was subjected to a general condemnation. The Ukrainian people have always striven to beauty in all kinds of activities (ordering the estate, homes, perfection, harmony with nature, Easter eggs, song, towel, thought, music, dance - all these created a national image of people-artist);

 knowledge of his ancestry. The greatest teacher of young generations has been the family. Since ancient times the family was seen as a sanctuary and education of children as a sacred duty of parents. Attention and respect for the family, for the kin does not come by itself. It must be educated. It is that natural, reliable way, on which the child from his early age realized his belonging to the family, kin and through them to the native people, to the Ukrainian nation.

The essence of moral education in pedagogy is considered as an integral process aimed at forming:

• moral consciousness;

• moral feelings;

• moral behavior (usual forms of behavior).

The moral feelings mean man’s suffering his attitude to what he knows, does. School age is the most favourable.

The moral feelings are like a "keeper" of correct moral behavior.

Moral consciousness and moral feelings become the basis for the formation of moral habits and are a very long process.

3. A characteristic feature of personality’s moral formation is consideration of his mentality (the mentality) - a specific world-view, attitude, outlook, seeing the world and himself in the world, national character, character that are produced under the influence of centuries-old cultural and historical, geopolitical and climatic factors.

Discipline, organization are essential features of man’s moral upbringing and his culture. The basis of discipline is combination of persuasion methods to shape the minds and reasonable demands. This is an essential prerequisite for skills and habits of moral behavior mastering.

The main quality of morality are formed in early childhood on the basis on the so-called "social inheritance". The role of parents is here crucial: their behavior, their purposeful influence on the personality of the child. It is particularly important to engage in the moral education opportunities of all social institutions:

- Family its purposeful influence on the formation of moral values ​​of the child;

- Teaching activities of preschool educational institutions;

- Educative activities of general educational institutions (schools, lyceums, gymnasiums);

- Activities of professional educational institutions (vocational schools, universities);

- Mass media (radio, television, movies, newspapers, etc..);

- Work of art institutions (theaters, museums, conservatories, clubs, culture clubs, etc.);

- Social and productive activities of citizens in the enterprises, organizations.

None of the means can be absolutize or understimate. The main thing is to ensure commitment, unity and coordination of all social institutions that have an influence on personality.

Observance moral norms of coexistence requires self-organization, self-discipline of the personality. The school educational process plays an important role in his formation. School discipline is the observance the rules of behavior by students in school and beyond, a clear and organized performance of their duties, respect for traditions and soon.

Conscious Discipline is a strict implementation of the principles and norms of social behavior, based on a sense of duty and responsibility.

Duty means awareness of personality his public and moral requirements. Responsibility is a quality of personality, characterized by the desire and ability to evaluate his behavior in terms of benefit or harm to society, to compare his actions with social norms, laws.

In teaching conscious discipline, a sense of duty and responsibility the joint work of teachers and educators is very importand. It is focused on learning by the students the behavior rules in school, their rights and duties, formation their needs to follow them constantly, creation optimum conditions for conscious activity and most importantly – the constant tactful control the behavior of students, clear and uncompromising demands.

Strictness and severity of the teacher must be friendly. He should understand that the student can make mistakes due to lack of life experience or for other reasons. Therefore the teacher should be able to forgive mistakes, help children find the best solutions in difficult situations.

In moral education one should base on the humanistic idea that man by nature has desire for goodness, truth and beauty.

Absolutely timeless values are human values ​​that have universal significance and unlimited scope (goodness, truth, love, honesty, dignity, beauty, wisdom, justice, etc.)..

National values ​​are significant for one nation, but they are not always shared by other nations. For example, a sense of nationalism is clear and close only the oppressed peoples and alien to those who never lost their independence. This group values ​​includes concepts such as patriotism, a sense of national identity, historical memory and more others.

Civic values ​​are based on the recognition of human dignity and are typical for democratic societies. They are in particular, the rights and freedoms of a man responsibilities to other people, the ideas of ​​social harmony, respect for the law and so on.

Family values are moral foundations of family life, relations of generations, the laws of conjugal fidelity, care of children, the memory of ancestors and others.

Moral relations in the family leave their mark on human life, because their effect is connected, firstly, with strong feelings, and secondly, they are a more constant, thirdly, they are the foundation of all moral attitudes of man to society to work, to other people.

Values ​​of personal life are relevant primarily to the man himself, define his character, behavior, style, of private life, etc. ..

4. Contents of the moral education of students is caused by the needs and demands of society to the formation of fully developed personality, the level of his morality. Given these factors, the task of moral education in school is the formation of national consciousness and identity, the desire to live in harmony with nature, conscious discipline, commitment and responsibility, respect for the law, the adults, to a woman.

The formation of national consciousness and self-awareness foresees: education of love for his native land, for his people, willingness to work for Ukraine, adoption of national values ​​(language, territory, culture), a sense of his involvement in the development of the national independence, patriotism, which contributes to strengthening national pride, attracting students to the practical issues of statehood, the formation of a sense of dignity and pride for their homeland.

In nurturing a sense of national dignity the true deal with the history of culture and education of the people, return to the cultural heritage of the past, the discovery of unknown pages of our heritage are of great importance.

Patriotic feelings are stregthened by heroic and patriotic education, which has to produce a deep understanding of civic duty, readiness at any time to defend the Motherland, to acquire military knowledge and learn martial traditions and heroic pages of his people’s history, his armed forces.

Celebration the dates of people’s calendar is very important for moral education. People's calendar is a system of historical dates, events, observations the surrounding reality, national holidays and other celebrations that are celebrated throughout the year.

Topics educational activities, which are conducted now in schools show that education is returned to the national and moral sources.