VAL 1– VALUES FORMATION

WEEK 1-2
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS VALUES?

VALUES

 A person's or society's beliefs about good behavior and what things are
important.
 It is something desirable, worth having, worth possessing, worth keeping and
worth doing.
 Identical with good.

WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR VALUES?

 Values reflect our sense of right and wrong.

 They help us grow and develop.
 Individual values reflect how we live our life and what we consider important
for our own self-interests.
 Individual values include enthusiasm, creativity, humility and personal
fulfilment.
 And for the sake of survival, sanity, peace of mind; and this explains why
values are inseparable from life.

CAN VALUES BE TAUGHT?

 Yes, values can indeed be taught as a subject.

 Yes, the family is the primary carrier of values.
 Values are passed on from parents and elders.
 The growing child imitates every actuation, speech, mannerism, disposition,
expression, etc. of those around him.

ARE VALUES SUBJECTIVE OR OBJECTIVE?

Subjective – there should be a subject to notice, disclose, and recognize its being a
value.

Objective – there should be essential features inherent in a thing of value that allure
and appeal to a subject.

The debate whether values are subjective or objective is unwise one, for both
subjective and objective aspects of values. This is because objective facts are your

PREPARED BY: CRISTY N. MAGTOLIS, LPT

subjective values. This means we make judgement or choices based on things that
are there or being offered to us, therefore values are both subjective and objective.

ARE VALUES PERMANENT OR CHANGEABLE?

- Values are permanent, objective and unchangeable.

- Carriers are transmitters of values are relative, subjective and changeable.

WHAT ARE FILIPINO VALUES?

- Are the things Filipinos consider good, important, proper, suitable, worthy,
right, acceptable, and desirable in life.

PREPARED BY: CRISTY N. MAGTOLIS, LPT