Education without Moral and Human Values is Meaningless

Today we have lots of subjects to study in our curriculum but there are very few which are imparting moral values within us. We are not giving stress in our character building process. Not surprising enough we see the loss of the traditional values from our lives which was part of our ancient heritage and was something which made all of us feel proud of our culture and society. In our ancient time we used to consider guest as our god 'Atithi Devo Bhava.” But now with the change in society we have new stories in our curriculum “Atithi tum Kab Jaoge?'' meaning Guest when will you leave now we cannot tolerate you. What kind of value system we are inculcating among our children by these lessons is a matter of deep concern? This is not due to rising prices but due to the fact we are becoming self centric and selfish person. We hardly have time for others and we don't give a damn to them. This attitude will become more widespread if we have to study this kind of lessons in our school. Now how many of our children are staying with their Grand parents? We can easily do the survey. Now parents after the marriage are considered as guests to our house and not surprising enough we expect them to leave at the earliest. Because our daily routine is disrupted and we cannot afford to “waste “ our valuable time looking after them? These are the glimpses of our values system at present. If we don't know who were Eklavya or Aruni definitely we can't improve the things. Education must inculcate strong moral and cultural values in the child to make them good human beings prior to anything which they will become in their future. If we are deprived of these values we are no lesser than animals unfortunately born as human.

Students' Oxygen movement view

19/09/2010