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BY- MR.TARUN RAWAT ; 7017834300

Q 1. What do you mean by values or human values? What is value education? Why there is
a need of value education? 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 2. Explain the process of value education.

ANS. The process for value education has to be that of self-exploration, which includes two
things :verification at the level of natural acceptance and experiential validation in living. Self
exploration is the process to find out what is valuable to me by investigating within myself,
what is right for me, true for me, has to be judged within myself. Through self exploration we
get the value of ourself. Various aspects of reality facilitating the understanding of human
values will be presented as proposals. We need to verify these proposals for our self and
examine our living in this light.

Q 3. What are the basic guidelines for value education?

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 nature.
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Q 4. What do you understand by the value of an entity? What is the value of a human being?
ANS. The value of any unit in this existence is its participation in the larger order of which it is part e.g. value
of a pen is that it can write. Here writing is the participation of the pen in the bigger order in which pen, paper,
human being, all are present. Value of an eye is that it can be used for seeing. Value of a vegetable plant is that
it gives nutrition to animals and humans.
The value of human being is the participation of human being at different level in this order. The
participation of the human being is seen in two forms: behaviour and work. The participation of human being
pertaining to behaviour are the nine values in relationship, viz. trust, respect, affection, care, guidance,
reverence, glory, gratitude and love. Likewise, working with material things, we have two values: utility value
and artistic value. All these values are nothing but the participation of the human being in different dimensions
of living.

Q 5. What is the need for value education? Write a short note on the need for value education in today’s
seenario.
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 values to fulfil our aspirations in continuity. 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.
• Complimentarity of values and skills. To fulfil our aspirations both values and skills are necessary.
When we identify and set the right goals and produced in right direction. This is known as value domain,
the domain of wisdom, and when we learn and practices to actualize this goal to develop the techniques
to make this happen in real life, in various dimensions of human endeavour (struggle). This is known as
domain of skills.
Hence, there is an essential complementarity between values and skills for the success of any human
endeavour. For example, I want to lead a healthy life. Only wishing for good health will not help me keep
my body fit and healthy and without having understood the meaning of health, I will not be able to
choose things correctly to keep my body fit and healthy.
• Evaluation of our beliefs. Each one of us believes in certain things and we base our values on these
beliefs, be they false or true which may or may not be true in reality. These believes come to us from
what we read, see, hear, what our parents tells us, our friends talk about, what the magazines talk of, what
we see from TV etc. Value Education helps us to evaluate our beliefs and assumed values.
• Technology and human values. The present education system has become largely skill-based. The
prime emphasis is on science and technology. However, science and technology can only help to provide
the means to achieve what is considered valuable. It is not within the scope of science and technology to
provide the competence of deciding what really is valuable. Value Education is a crucial missing link in
the present education system. Because of this deficiency, most of our efforts may prove to be
counterproductive and serious crises at the individual, societal and environmental level are manifesting.

Q 6. What is the need for value education in technical and other professional institutions?
ANS. The subject that enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is called value
education. The present education system has become largely skill-based. The prime emphasis is on science and
technology. However, science and technology can only help to provide the means to achieve what is considered
valuable. It is not within the scope of science and technology to provide the competence of deciding what
really is valuable. Value Education is a crucial missing link in the present education system. Because of this
deficiency, most of our efforts may prove to be counterproductive and serious crises at the individual, societal
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and environmental level are manifesting.

Q 7. Illustrate the content of value education. What should be the content of value education to make it
complete? How do values relate to our day to day living?

ANS.7 The subject that enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is called value
education. The scope of value education includes all dimensions (thoughts, behaviour, work and
realization)and all levels (individual, family, society and nature – existence). Accordingly, the content of value
education will be to understand myself, my aspirations, my happiness; understand the goal of human life
comprehensively, understand the other entities in nature, the innate inter-connectedness, the coexistence in the
nature- existence and finally the role of human being in this nature/existence entirely. Hence, it has to
encompass understanding of harmony at various levels and finally, learning to live in accordance with this
understanding by being vigilant to one’s thoughts, behaviour and work.
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BY- MR.TARUN RAWAT ; 7017834300