Discipline JSS2 Civic Education Lesson Note

 DISCIPLINE 

Discipline is the ability to behave and is a strict standard and controlled form that involves obeying particular rules or patterns of behaviour even in a difficult situation. It is the attitude of doing the right thing at the right time.

Peace and harmony prevail in societies when the citizens are disciplined.

ATTRIBUTES OF DISCIPLINE

1. SELF–CONTROL: deliberately avoiding abnormal behaviour that can embarrass you and others, e.g., avoiding the urge to fight in public or exchanging abusive words with a colleague. Someone without self-control can engage in drug trafficking to meet a need.
2. MODESTY: it is sympathy in all things people want to throw the bigger party and ride the best car when unnecessary. Extravagant lifestyle has made a lot of leaders and civil servants engage in corrupt practices. 
3. RESPECT FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS: A disciplined person pays his taxes regularly, obeys traffic rules, and helps security agents fight against crime by providing useful information when necessary. 

IMPORTANCE OF DISCIPLINE

1. Discipline encourages peace in society: when people obey rules and regulations. There will be peace in such a society.
2. It fosters unity: discipline makes people work together in unity
3. It fosters economic and political development: financial discipline in civil servants and politics would make them use government funds for developmental projects rather than for projects that will benefit them, their friend, and their relatives. 

CONSEQUENCES OF INDISCIPLINE 

Indiscipline is the opposite of discipline. It is the act of doing things that society frowns at. The following are some of the consequences of discipline in the society.

1. It brings disorderliness in the society 
2. It allows for social and political instability
3. It slows down development efforts
4. In the school there will be utter confusion. Teachers will not be able to teach and students unable to learn.
5. It leads to disunity; break up of families and destruction of social values.