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Value Education / Human Values

Character-oriented education that instills basic values and ethnic values in one’s psyche is called ‘Value Based Education. The subject that enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is called value education. Value education is important to help everyone in improving the value system that he/she holds and puts it to use. Once, one has understood his/ her values in life he/she can examine and control the various choices he/she makes in his/ her life. Value education enables us to understand our needs and visualize our goals correctly and also helps to remove our confusion and contradictions and bring harmony at all levels. It also helps remove our confusion and contradictions and enables us to rightly utilize technological innovations.

Values form the basis for all our thoughts, behaviors, and actions. Once we know what is valuable to us, these values become 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 be assured of a happy and harmonious human society.

Basic Guidelines for Value Education

The subject that enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is called value education. In order to qualify for any course on value education, the following guidelines for the content of the course are important:

• Universal: It needs to be applicable to all human beings irrespective of cast, creed, nationalities, or religion, , for all times and regions.
• Rationale: It has to appeal to human reasoning. It has to be amenable to reasoning and not based on dogmas or blind beliefs.
• Natural and verifiable: It has to be naturally acceptable to the human being who goes through the course and when we live on the basis of such values it leads to our It needs to be experientially verifiable, and not based on dogmas, beliefs, or assumptions.
• All-encompassing: Value education is aimed at transforming our consciousness and living. Hence, it needs to cover all the dimensions (thought, behavior, work, and realization) and levels (individual, family, society, nature, and existence) of human life and
• Leading to harmony: The value education ultimately is targeted to promote harmony within the individual, among human beings and with