Morality until recently has been seen as a brainchild of education and religion thus an essential part of education and religion from which they seem to be inseparable. This assumption has even led some scholars to hold that there can be no morality without education and religion since morality is intrinsically a part of education and religion. Whether this is so is an issue that elicits fierce divergent views among scholars and people of various orientations. This chapter critically examines education and morality in the temporary Nigerian society with regards to the role of religion in upholding morality to determine whether the above claims and expectations are justified.

Employing exploratory approach and critical analysis of the works of other researchers, the paper examines the concepts of education and morality unveiling their meanings in detail. It also examines concepts of character education and morality and moral education and morality. The paper further examines school system and morality as well as the role of religion in upholding morality. It concludes that morality is an issue that remains worrisome in the contemporary Nigerian society as some unacceptable social behaviours like corruption, violence, prostitution, armed robbery, kidnapping, teen pregnancy, infidelity in marriage, stealing, injustice among other social evils persist in our society.

It is therefore imperative that, educational institutions should encourage the teaching of character education and moral education to the younger generations and religious bodies should promote moral beliefs among their adherents.