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Destructive Role: Example- In our country, most of the people learn and develop a sense about the caste
system in their childhood in their families.
Change in Values Taught by the Parents: Now focus has shifted on competition rather than cooperation, on
individualism rather than family and collectivism, on consumerism rather than gratification and sacrifice.
Divergence Between Family and Individual Values: In recent times due to disintegration of traditional families,
technological explosion, peer influence, the role of family as a first value provider is declining.

ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN INCULCATION OF VALUES

- Martin Luther King
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C S Lewis
As per National Education Policy, education is regarded as the most potent tool to inculcate values in children. School
is a place where systematic learning takes place in the earlier year of life which enables the child to learn how to regulate
his behaviour in society.
Important Role in Inculcating a Good Value System: Teachers and Schools/Colleges play a big role in it. As
Students spend more time in school and college, they learn how to behave in society.
Education is the Most Powerful Agent of Inculcating Human Values: At all times, education has built on a value-
system, conducive to the development of physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual life.
Etiquettes and Values are Imparted to Children For instance, In the Japanese system, in the first four years
basic etiquettes and values are taught to children. Children are also taught to clean their toilets.
Curriculum and Discipline of Moral Philosophy: School curriculums must have lessons on moral issues and a
subject of moral philosophy.
Syllabus and Textbooks Also Shape Attitude of Children:
(a) World History: French revolution - liberty, equality, fraternity.
(b) Modern History: - Standing against injustice.
(c) Literature: It helps us understand the human nature and prevalent social values of a given era.
Values of Sportsmanship, Team-Spirit: Opportunity to participate in various sports at the tender age help to develop
team spirit among students.
Overall Personality Development: Education plays important role in all round development such as Inculcating
compassion, truth, mutual coexistence between different culture,
Social Control: Values like obedience, respect, and discipline should be taught in schools. By encouraging kids to
be good students, productive future employees, and law-abiding citizens, schools promote uniformity.

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through technology and build the confidence among children to be innovative and creative which in turn will
make them competitive to face the future." - APJ Abdul Kalam

societal members who can make a difference. T - APJ Abdul

Kalam

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VALUE EDUCATION

Value-Based Education: It must be integral to the whole process of
education and basic human values need to be encouraged in the classroom
teaching. system is the absence of
provision for education in
Deconstructing Wrong Values: Such as, gender bias, hatred,
social, moral and spiritual
communalism or casteism learned by students can be deconstructed by - Kothari Commission
inculcating rational approaches. (1964-66).
Teachers Act as a Role Model for Students: A Teacher has to set a high
standard of moral behaviour before the child and he/she is expected to therefore to teach students true
function not only as facilitator for acquisition of knowledge but also as moral values from the earliest
inculcator of values and transformer of inner being. -
Playful Learning for Inculcating Values: Teacher educators can involve Sri Prakasha Committee on
students in active games in the classroom to inculcate the values of fair Religious and Moral
play, honesty, courage, cooperation etc. Instruction.
Holistic Approach:
goals, every action needs to be analyzed in the light of universal values which are acceptable to the society.
Technology and Value Education: Value Education is needed to train the future technocrats by making them fully
aware of both the constructive as well as destructive aspects of technology.

ROLE OF SOCIETY
The society is a place of informal learning that guarantees inheritance to its members. It caresses the child with

not an ethics.
The social tradition carries values of intimacy, language, love, equality, wishes to live, action, conduct, morality,
unity, attachment and jealousy. These are the obvious traits, which a child borrows from the members of the society.
Man lives in society for his mental and Constructive Role of Society: Society can play an important role
intellectual development and Society
preserves our culture and transmits it to
succeeding generations. Society brings ethical values it can encourage individuals to be ethical.
morality and ethics in individuals. Destructive Role of Society: Similarly, society may play a
Society brings tolerance and national deciding role in developing a crime as a sub cultural phenomenon.
integration. If one is living in a surrounding If it does not disapprove the unethical behaviors/acts, it may lower
with people from a variety of caste, religion
the standards of ethics in the society and it may result into increase
and regional background, you develop
tolerance. in criminal activities.
Society removes the evils of social
indifferences like caste through collective struggle.
Political setup which may be either Democratic or autocratic transmits suitable values among citizens.
Society imbibes conformity. A person is forced to mimic what his peers do. If they are smoking, he will smoke, if

The child encounters many behavioural patterns and makes common causes with the peer groups; learns the value
of neighbourhood, unity in diversity, service to man is the service to God, co-operation and virtues comprehensively.
Religion and culture are somewhat intertwined, and their moral standards are the most important influence in
instilling values through social channels.

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