Our epics such as ‘Mahabharata’ and ‘Ramayana’ tell us the
true story of our being Indian. The Indian values are world known for our
tradition, our respect for others be it elders or youngsters.
Are we loosing that most integral ingredient of building a
personality of being Indian, ‘the values.’ These used to be time when once a
person makes a promise, he fulfills that even at the cost of his life. ‘That’
used to be the strength of Indian values. I’m wondering, where that indianness
has vanished? Why do we see that these values slowly loosing its importance in
one’s personality and why people have become more self-egoist and
self-centered.
I believe, the solution to bridge this gap lies to ensure teaching
values as a subject to indicate qualities of a balanced personality. No doubt,
Value is a very vast concept. What all it includes has to be taught. So why not
values to be included in the curriculum itself. I know, today’s generation is
in the run of development and progress. They are more practical and futuristic.
They are under the notion that of they are qualified and educated they are
up-to-date but they forget that values acts as a garnish to every end- result.
It adds on the grace of anything. Values make person more civilized. It
inculcates the true value of living.
Value of values is now-a-days more important. In the
materialistic world human are not becoming literate but getting inhuman. While
running on the path of success they tend to forget what the true success is?
Ask your ownself, whom would you call a perfect human, one who is educated or
one who is educated as well as having values in himself.
Indeed, teaching value is not as easy as it sounds. It is
much more than that. Today’s generation is more pro western culture and
compromise majority on their values. I know today kids want to be global. Even
we want India through these kids as an integral part of the world, but being
global doesn’t mean that leave our culture, our values behind.
We need to lead the world, our generation (view) have
everything. They are bold, not afraid of taking risk and have the desire of
touching the sky, if they are given the touch of ‘values’ through their
education. They will become unbeatable like the ‘Great King Ashoka’ and we will
again have ‘Indian Epics’ of course modern ones having their space in all
civilization.
About the Author:
The Author is Ms. Anandita Chauhan, PGT Commerce, Meenakshi Public School
www.meenakshipublicschool.com
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