APPROACHES TO INCULCATE OF VALUES
Values
are closely related with aims of education. The value oriented education helps
young people to lead more personally satisfying and socially constructive
lives. Values are the domain of what is preferred and desirable. Moral values
are the domain of what is right and wrong. It also helps in developing certain
skills like knowing oneself, self-esteem, goal setting ability, communication
and social skills. It also teaches certain traditional values develop internal
qualities that have always been admired with goodness, virtues and moral
maturity.
Value education both
formal and informal may encourage developing moral codes such as honesty,
truthfulness and justice. It helps them to make socially responsible behavior.
The Kothari Commission has rightly stated, “The expanding knowledge and
the growing power (Science) which it places at the disposal of modern society
must therefore, be combined with the strengthening and depending of the sense
of responsibility and a keener appreciation of moral and spiritual values”.
The National Policy on Education 1986 also stressed on inculcation of
social and moral values among the children. The growing concern over the
erosion of essential values and increasing cynicism has brought to focus the
need for readjustments in curriculum in order to make education a forceful tool
for the cultivation of social and moral values.
By this it is very clear
that education should focus on cultivation of moral, social and spiritual
values. By providing favorable environment the children can practice various
virtues and values. Following are the important activities to be undertaken in
the school.
1.
Celebration of national festivals.
2.
Conduct of social service programmes.
3.
Emphasis on the unity of all religions,
harmony among communities and national integration.
4.
Development of scientific temper.
5.
Community prayer in the school.
6.
Health and cleanliness programmes.
7.
Socially useful productive programmes.
8.
Citizenship training programmes.
9.
Cultural and recreational programmes.
10.
Student self-government in schools.
11.
Introduction of Information Technology.
12.
International understanding.
13.
Appropriate teaching-learning situations.
The teachers also must
ply the important role in inculcation of values among children. The most
important aspect is that they should set good examples of conduct and behavior
which students may imbibe in themselves. Remarks made by Albert Einstein in ‘Ideas and Opinions’ in this regard are very
enlightening. “It is not enough to teach a man specially. Through it he may
become a useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is
essential that the students require a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the
morally good. Otherwise he with his specialized knowledge resembles a
well-trained dog rather than a harmoniously developed person”.
