Sunday, June 21, 2009

Importance of Values Education

Values shapes our relationships among others, our behaviors, our choices life, and our sense of who we are. The more positive our values, the most positive our actions. This is one of the reasons why values education is being taught or included in both elementary and secondary levels because it plays a great role for students' becoming successful in their own choice of careers. Values is the anchor to a person who dreams successfully in life and It is the foundation of a morally upright person.

The objectives of values education depend on the people who claim to be doing the values education. Religious people will want to impart their specific set of values. People with a particular social perspective will want to impart socialist or capitalist values. However, there is a growing realisation that the underlying purpose of values education is to help people to behave more responsibly.

As many societies of the world have become heterogeneous with respect to religious belief and more secular, to stem the resulting moral relativism, Values education has been found to be a more effective way of teaching spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, than promoting any particular religious tradition. There is still much work to be done in defining what we mean by spiritual development, moral development, social development and cultural development and how all these developments relate to one another.

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