The silly antics that would get me in trouble at school have put me on the best-seller list. So I guess the moral here is ignore your teach... never mind. That's not the moral. Probably.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.
I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.
Everything I do has a moral to it.