"The prosperity of the country depends not on the abundance of its resources, nor on the strength of its fortification, not on the beauty of public buildings but its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character". - Martin Luther King.
The above two quotations of eminent personalities are the crux of the concept 'values'. The word 'values' was first used by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1880 and over the centuries it has been cloaked so differntly that it has attained mutifarious ideas. One word 'values' speaks so eloquently about a person who may be a mute wise or a outspoken fool. It conveys the personality of a man. If a man plays no positive role in the society, he lives in, he is regarded valueless.
There are various categories of values:
- Personal
- Social
- Moral
- Spiritual
- Cultural and
- Universal
UNESCO held a summit in 1998 on the theme 'Values in Education'. It finally came out with the following decisions which encourage students to: -
- develop own personal moral codes and have a concern for others.
- reflect on experiences and research for meaning and pattern in their experiences.
- have self-respect and respect for commonly held values such as honesty, truthfulness and justice.
- make socially responsible judgement and be able to provide justification of decisions and actions.
All the above decisions stated above stress the need among the elderly in the communities to develop the budding nation buiders in such a fashion as would be self-dependent one for them. Remember we can only teach 'values' to the children we cannot give them our 'thoughts'. It is our duty to allow the children to grow themselves responsibly. They should not get a chance to blame the elders. They should be allowed to see for themselves what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' and it is this hairline difference between the above stated two terms which if they understood; they will have 'values'.
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