Thursday, 30 June 2016

Today's education system and Value education

Value Education

The present education system has become largly skill-based .The prime emphasis is on science and technology. However,science and technology can only help to provide the means to achieve what is considered valuable. It is not not within the scope of science and technology to provide competence of deciding what is really valuable.Value education is a crucial missing link in the present education system . Because of this deficiency ,most of our efforts may prove to be counterproductive and serious crises at the individual,societal,and environmental level are manifesting.
Character oriented education that instills basic values and ethnic values in one's psyche is called "value based education". This study enables us to understand what is valuable for human happiness is called value education. Value education enable us to understand our needs and visualize our goals corretly and also helps to remove our confusions and contradictions and bring harmony at all levels. It also helps us to rightly utilize the technological innovations .
Value form the basis for all our thoughts,behaviors and actions. Once we know what is valuable to us,these values becomes the basis,the anchor for our actions. We also need to understand the universality of various human values,because only then we can have a definite and common program for value education then only we can assured of a happy and harmonious human society.

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