What do you mean by values or human values?
UNIT 1
Q. What do you mean by values or human
values?
or
What is value education? Why there is a need of
value education?
or
How does value education helps in fulfilling one's
aspirations?
ANS. Character oriented education that instils 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 confusions and contradictions and bring
harmony at all levels. It also helps remove our
confusions and contradictions and enables us to
rightly utilize the technological innovations.
Values form the basis for all our thoughts,
behaviours and actions. Once we know what is
valuable to us, these values becomes 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.
Q. What are the basic guidelines for value
education? (UPTU 2011 – 12)
Ans: 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 the
human beings irrespective of cast, creed,
nationalities, religion, etc., for all times and regions.
• Rational: 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 happiness. 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,
behaviour, work and realization) and levels
(individual, family, society, nature and existence) of
human life and profession.
• Leading to harmony: The value education
ultimately is targeted to promote harmony within
the individual, among human beings and with
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nature.
Q. What is the need for value education?
or
Write a short note on the need for value
education in today‟s scenario. (MTU 2010–11)
Ans: The subject that enables us to understand
„what is valuable‟ for human happiness is called
value education. Need for value education is:
Correct identification of our
aspirations. The subject which enables us to
understand „what is valuable‟ for human
happiness is called „value education‟ (VE).
Thus, VE enables us to understand our needs
and visualize our goals correctly and also
indicate the direction for their fulfilment. It also
helps to remove our confusions and
contradictions and bring harmony at all levels.
Understanding universal human
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