Class Room Activity-2 (CRA-2)

• Class Room Activity-2

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 Class Room Activity
for Course in
Human Values

the students have to do is

1. Read the statements made or questions posed.
2. For a statement see within yourself to find out
whether its true for you or not? For a question,
think over it and find out your answer.
3. Students has to write their observations in
Class Room Activity Note book.

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• (1) Now a days, there is a lot of voice about many
techno-genic maladies such as energy and natural
resource depletion, environmental pollution, global
warming, ozone depletion, deforestation, soil
degradation, etc. – all these seem to be man-made
problems threatening the survival of life on Earth – What
is the root cause of these maladies & what is the way
out your opinion? (Solution)

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• (2) On the other hand, there is rapidly growing danger

because of nuclear proliferation, arms race, terrorism,
criminalization of politics, large scale corruption, scams,
breakdown of relationships, generation gap, depression &
suicidal attempts, etc-what do you think, is the root
cause of these threats to human happiness and peace –
what could be the way out in your opinion?(Solution)

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 C Class Room Activity-2 (CRA-2)
• Write the answers now in class.
• Take around 5 minutes.
• Discussion will be follows.

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• Now, Discussion by the Teacher/Facilitator with

Students ….

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• These problems broadly fall in two categories:

– Threats to survival of life on earth
– Threats to human happiness and peace
• What are the possible causes of these techno
genic maladies?
• Does technology have the solution for these
problems or something else is required to have a
check on these?

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• Technology can be defined as the efficient way of

doing the things which are valuable.
• Does technology provide any basis to decide,
‘what is valuable?’
• If we keenly look into the possible causes of
techno-genic maladies, it can be found out that the
lack of this competence to decide, ‘what is
valuable’, is the root cause of most of these
problems.
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• Therefore, Technical education without

knowledge of human values can cause more
problems than solutions.
• Value education makes one competent enough to
decide on his own right, ‘what is valuable?’
• What measures are being taken now a days to
resolve these problems or to minimize the effect
of these problems?
• In order to resolve these problems, are we trying
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• Most of the prevailing measures to keep a check

on these problems are based on fear, temptation or
sanctions.
• These solutions can not be sustainable. They may
be able to temporarily restrain a person.
• In fact, these measures makes a person more
resistant to improvement and a bigger threat to
society.

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• Only the solutions based on right understanding

and value based living can be sustainable.
• Therefore, value education is essential, which will
compliment technical education in order to ensure
the right utilization of technology.

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 HOME WORK

• 1. What is your idea of

success/progress/development?

• 2. What is your idea of happiness?

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