VALUE EDUCATION Right understanding and Relationships • Prosperity • Fearlessness • Co –existence 5 aspects of right understanding • • • • • Education and right living Health and self regulation Justice and preservation Production Exchange What is Value Education? • Value education is an aspect of education that focuses on developing moral and ethical values in students. It involves fostering essential values and morals in individuals to help them develop a strong character and become responsible members of society. Need of Value Education • • • • • Correct identification of your aspiration. Understanding Universal Human Values to fulfill our aspirations in continuity. Complementarity of values and skills. Evaluation of your beliefs. Technology and human values. Guidelines for value education • • • • • Universal Rational Natural and Verifiable All Encompassing Leading to Harmony Self exploration • The Desire/Goal/Aspiration • The Program-What is the purpose of Self-exploration? It is a process of dialogue between 'what you are' and 'what you really want to be". It is a process of self-evolution through self-investigation. It is a process of knowing oneself and through that, knowing the entire existence. Basic Human Aspirations continuous Happiness and Prosperity • Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy. • Prosperity is the state of flourishing, thriving success or good fortune. Real-life examples • We are trying to achieve happiness and prosperity by maximizing the accumulation and consumption of physical facilities. Some of the consequences of such a trend are summarized below At the level of individual-rising problems of depression, psychological disorders, suicides, stress, insecurity, etc.. • At the level of family breaking of joint families, mistrust, conflict between older and younger generations, insecurity in relationships, divorce, dowry tortures, etc. At the level of society - growing incidence of terrorism and naxalism, rising communalism, spreading casteism, racial and ethnic struggle, wars between nations, etc.
