Neoliberalism and Commercialization of Education: the Challenges for Moral Education

The aim of this paper is to critique the influences of commercialization of education on moral education. For this aim we used critical method. investigating the challenges of neoliberal education for moral education، with case study of NCLB، indicated that Increasing competition and reducing social participation، instrumentalist view on human being، converting knowledge to a commodity for profit (not an action for searching truth)، neglecting of public welfare، and possessive individualism، all of these are examples of foregoing challenges. In addition، the large number of private higher institutions with low quality and large quantity، increasing competition among universities for commercialization of knowledge and approaching the industry، and finally weakened research ethics، these are evidences of spreading of commercialization on Iranian education specially in higher education.