What happen to the standard answers??

Was talking to a fren abt moral education in Singapore. We all know that for all the qns asked during such lesson, there are always standards answers. For example, what you should do when you found money on the floor in a public place? Standard answer would be, to bring the money to a police officer. What should you do when you see an elderly standing on the bus while you are sitting down? Standard answer again would be to stand up and offer this seat to the elderly. Other problems also have standard answers. FOr instance, when you like somebody, the standard follow up action is to be brave and tell your feelings to that particular person, so that the whole issue would not drag on and on.

So the problem here is how come nobody or should i say only a few people would follow the standard answers. I think several factors come into play before someone actually decides whether to follow the standard ans or do what they what they 'feel' is more appropriate. Factors like emotions, experience, knowledge and information are critical. These factors will come into the decision of what actions to take. For instance, a young person should give up his seats for the elderly in a crowded bus. But what if I said that the young person was doing volunteer work or charity work for the last 24 hrs non-stop? Now who needs the seats more?

Another problem here is that moral education tend to trivialise the issue. Which could lead to the problem of dis-illusion of our young kids. Kids would start asking their parents like "How come this uncle nv give up seat to the grandma on the bus?" How would the parents answer the qn? Well I would not have any idea at all.

Some food for thoughts? Cheers!