Value Education

A necessary part of
School Curriculum

Contents
1

What is Value Education?

Why is Value Education Needed?

Global Scenario on Value Education

What I Think About Value Education

How to Implement Value Education?

Introduction

The current system of education around the world has taken the wrong turn. The emphasis
has only been on academic achievement and preparing one to face the job market. The
student of today is concerned with acquiring wealth, strength and position, but not good
qualities.

The growing intolerance that we see today in

personal relationships, social conflicts, and
in widespread crime and in corruption, has
its roots in the prevailing education system.
Human Being become good or bad through
the society. But our present society is
suffering with corruption and to change this
scenario what we need is VALUE
EDUCATION.

What is Value Education?

EDUCATION

IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT VALUES

Education opens our mind

Education extends our

relationship with the world
Education makes our living
better
Education teaches us to complete
with others
Educational makes us a good
professional
Education may bring limitations

But value education gives us

purity of heart too
But values link us with our
own family too
But values makes our life
better too
But values encourages us to be
complete too
But values makes us human
too
But values is for liberation.

After all right education means Sa Vidya Ya Vimuktye. It

means that knowledge is what helps us to attain liberation.

WHY IS VALUE EDUCATION NEEDED

The

quantity of education has considerably increased, but the quality has decreased.
Why?

The

number of educated people has reached at a high level, but murder, hatred, and
selfishness have spread out like wildfire everywhere. Many institutions are opened,
but only few civilized people are produced. Why?

Degrees

are available for all, but the dignity has gone down. Why?

Trained

people are produced from many institutions, but sincere people are very few.

Why?
The only solution to these problem is that education should be based on value. And
therefore, we needed VALUE EDUACTION.

Global scenario
A new emphasis on moral values in curricular reforms can be observed in countries around the
world.
In

the UK, the National Curriculum for England 2000 has included a statement of values to
promote spiritual, moral, social, and cultural (SMSC) education.

In

Australia, the Adelaide Declaration on the objectives of schooling in the twenty-first century
lays emphasis on social, moral and spiritual development as much as on intellectual and physical
development.

In

Thailand, a key objective of the National Education Plan (2002-2016) is to build a society of
morality, wisdom, and learning.

In

post-apartheid South Africa, the constitutional values of truth, tolerance, and solidarity are
driving educational reforms.

The world has gradually come to realise that to eliminate increasing religious intolerance, violence,
and fatalism that characterise today's society, an education policy has to foster eternal values that
could promote the unity.

What I Think About Value

Education
Why I believe that value based education should be a
necessary part of our curriculum, is because values teach
us the importance of being a human being. Values are the
most important part of our life as said in the video. Lack
of proper education system and lack of knowledge among
parents are a few reasons why children have loose the
capacity to discriminate between right and wrong. And as
long as we continue to ignore that values are an integral
part, we will never be able to work towards holistic
development of children. The value based education
organises the fullest possible development of body, mind
and heart and contribute to the growth of internal and
external personality and is thus a necessay part.

to implement Value Educat

A practical approach to apply value based education should be adopted which
starts in junior classes itself.
Teachers should be trained and motivated to implement value based
education.
The methods for implementing value based education may be stories, poems,
prayers, songs, extra-curricular activities.
Similarly special camps can be organized
Parents should be more involved.
Although it is quite challenging to apply value based education, a few school
and colleges have been working towards the same. And lastly I want to say
only one line, that, there is a famous sayingBETTER LESS THAN NEVER, it means we must start now and work
towards a better tomorrow.

st of Resources Used
www.sathyasai.org
www.academia.edu
www.youtube.com
www.google.com

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