Is Called Value Based Education'. The Subject That Enables Us To Understand What Is Valuable'
Is Called Value Based Education'. The Subject That Enables Us To Understand What Is Valuable'
Is Called Value Based Education'. The Subject That Enables Us To Understand What Is Valuable'
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 happinessis 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
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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. 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 isconsidered
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 3. 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?
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ANS. 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 andwork.
Q 4. Values and skill complement each other. Elaborate.“For success in any Human
Endeavour both values and skills are required.” Explain.What do you mean by values?
How do they differ from skills? How are values and skills complementary?Explain how
production skills and human values are complementary. Give two examples.
ANS. Values means importance or participation and skills means qualities, training, and
capabilities. 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. Basically we must know what really is useful to achieve human happiness,
the happiness to all and for all the time.
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. So i have to learn the
skills to achieve the goal of good health i.e. food to be consumed, the physical workout to be
designed. So without knowing the meaning of good health, health cannot be achieved and also
it is necessary to make use of the goal to achieve the goal of thegoal.
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Q 1. Values and skill complement each other. Elaborate.
“For success in any Human Endeavour both values and skills are required.”
Explain.
What do you mean by values? How do they differ from skills? How are values and
skill complementary?Explain how production skills and human values are
complementary. Give two examples.
ANS. Values means importance or participation and skills means qualities, training, and
capabilities. 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. Basically we must know what really is useful to achieve human
happiness, the happiness to all and for all the time.
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. So i
have to learn the skills to achieve the goal of good health i.e. food to be consumed, the
physical workout to be designed. So without knowing the meaning of good health, health
cannot be achieved and also it is necessary to make use of the goal to achieve the goal of
thegoal.
But this process is not complete. It will be completed when on verification on the basis
of natural acceptance and testing in our living ultimately results in ‘realization’ and
‘understanding’ in us.
Verify on the basis of your naturalacceptance
Live accordingly to validate itexperientially
o If the proposal is true in behaviour with human leadsto mutual happiness
o If the proposal is true in work with rest of the natureleadsto mutual
prosperity
Results in realization andunderstanding
On having realization and
understanding we get
oAssurance
o SatisfactionUniversality (Applies to all time, space andindividual)
Take for example: a proposal- ‘respect’ is a value in human relation. When I verify
at the level of natural acceptance, I find that it is naturally acceptable to me. Similarly, when
I behave with respect, it is mutually fulfilling to me and to the other.
Thus the proposal is ‘True’. If it fails on any of the two tests, it is untrue.
This verification leads to realization of the truthfulness of the proposal and it becomes part
and parcel of my understanding. It is reflected in my thoughts and in my behaviour.
Q 1. What do you mean by self-exploration? What is the need for self-exploration?
What do you understand by self exploration? Where does it take place – self or body? (UPTU
2009-10)
Explain the concepts of natural acceptance and experiential validation as the mechanisms of self
exploration.
What is the mechanism of self exploration? And as a result what do we get in the end and how?
Nancy Goel, CS-A (2011)
ANS. 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. For self exploration we need two expects:
1. Natural acceptance: Natural acceptance implies unconditional and total acceptance of the self, people
and environment. It also refers to the absence of any exception from others. Once we fully and truly
commit ourself on the basis of natural acceptance, we feel a holistic sense of inner harmony, tranquillity
andfulfilment.
2. Experiential validation: Experiential validation is a process that infuses direct experience with the
learning environment and content. It may be regarded as a philosophy and methodology in which the
direct experience and focused reflection of the individual helps to increase knowledge, develop skill and
clarifyvalues.
Self exploration takes place in the self and not the body.
Q 4. Self exploration is a process of dialogue between ‘what you are’ and ‘what you really want to be’.
Explain andillustrate.
ANS. 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. It is a process of focusing attention on ourself, our present beliefs and aspirations vis-à-vis what we
really want to be (that is to say, what is naturally acceptable to us). If these two are the same, then there is no
problem. If on investigation we find that these two are not the same, then it means we are living with this
contradiction (of not being what we really want to be) and hence, we need to resolve this contradiction this
conflict within us. It is a process of discovering that there is something innate, invariant and
universal in all human beings. This enables us to look at our confusions and contradictions
within and resolve them by becoming aware of our natural acceptance.
Q 5. How can we verify proposals on the basis of our natural acceptance? Explain with
example.What do you mean by your natural acceptance? Is it innate, invariant and
universal? Explain “Natural acceptance is innate, invariant and universal.” Explain this
statement with an example.
ANS. Natural acceptance implies unconditional and total acceptance of the self, people and
environment. It also refers to the absence of any exception from others. Once we fully and truly
commit ourself on the basis of natural acceptance, we feel a holistic sense of inner harmony,
tranquillity and fulfilment. Actually natural acceptance is way to accept the good things naturally.
Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in our own way absorb it; do not
become others. We can easily verify proposals in the basis of characteristics of natural acceptance
mentioned below:
a. Natural acceptance does not change with time. It remains invariant with time. For
example our natural acceptance for trust and respect does not change withage.
b. It does not depend on the place. Whatever we have accepted, in our life, at any time
of our age, does not change, even if we move from one place to anotherone.
c. It does not depend on our beliefs or past conditionings. No matter how deep our
belief or past conditioning, as long as we ask ourselves the question sincerely, as long
as we refer deep within ourselves, the answer will always be thesame.
d. This natural acceptance is ‘constantly there’, something we can refer to. Natural
acceptance is always there. Whatever we do, this natural acceptance is within us, it is
telling us what isright.
e. Natural acceptance is the same for all of us: it is part and parcel of every human
being, it is part of humanness. Though each one of us, may have different likes and
dislikes and means to live and to react etc. but if we go deep in our mind the purpose of
our work, behaviour, efforts etc. are based on common goals like need to be happy,
need to be respected, need to get prosperity. So our basic acceptance remains thesame.
Q 17. What is happiness?
ANS. Happiness may be defined as being in harmony/synergy in the state/ situation that I live
in. “A state or situation in which I live, if there is harmony in it then I like to be in that state /
situation. The state of liking is happiness.” Happiness is a state of mind or feeling
characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy. Happiness may be described
as consisting of positive emotions and positive activities. There may be three kinds of
happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning. In other words, freedom from want and
distress, consciousness of the good order of things, assurance of one’s place in the universe or
society, inner peace and so forth. Happiness is the state of mind, where we feel good in most
of the walk oflife.
Q 18. What is the meaning of prosperity? How can you say that you are prosperous?
ANS. The feeling of having or making available more than required physical facilities is
prosperity. Almost all of us feel that wealth alone means prosperity and try to explain this
phenomenon on this nonexistent or half fact. We are trying to achieve happiness and
prosperity by maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical facilities. It is becoming
anti-ecological and anti-people, and threatening the human survival itself. For prosperity, two
things are required-
1. Identification of the required quantity of physical facilities,and
2. Ensuring availability / production of more than required physicalfacilities.
We can be prosperous only if there is a limit to the need for physical facilities. If
there is no limit what so ever be the availability the feeling of prosperity cannot be assured.
Secondly, just assessing the need is not enough. We need to be able to produce or
make available more than the perceived need.
Q 19. What is the difference between prosperity and wealth? What is more acceptable to us
and why?What do you understand by prosperity? What is the difference between
prosperity and wealth? How are the two related?What is the meaning of prosperity? How
does it differ from possession of wealth? Explain with examples. Differentiate between
prosperity and wealth with examples.
ANS. Prosperity is a feeling of having more than required physical facilities, it is not just
physical facilities. Almost all of us feel that wealth alone means prosperity and try to explain
this phenomenon on this nonexistent or half fact. Wealth is a physical thing. It means having
money, or having a lot of physical facilities or both. This is a very important distinction. We
mostly fail to make this distinction today. We keep working for wealth, without realizing that
the basic desire is for the feeling of prosperity, to have a feeling of having enough. Prosperity
is more acceptable to us because wealth is just a part of prosperity. We are trying to achieve
happiness and prosperity by maximizing accumulation and consumption of physical facilities.
It is becoming anti-ecological and anti-people, and threatening the human survival itself. A
peson have lot of money, but does not want to share even a bit of it. The person ‘has wealth’
but feels ‘deprived’. If one felt prosperous he/she would have shared what one has, since there
is lot more than enough wealth anyway.
Q 21. What do the abbreviations given as SVDD, SSDD and SSSS signify?
ANS. To achieve our basic aspirations we need to work for right understanding as the base
on which we can work for relationship and then physical facilities. Today we are not
working according to this that why we can see that there are two kind of people in the
world:
1. Those that do not have physical facilities/ wealth and feel unhappy and deprived. i.e.
SVDD: Sadhan Viheen Dukhi Daridra – Materially Deficient, Unhappy andDeprived.
2. Those that have physical facilities/ wealth and feel unhappy and deprived. i.e. SSDD:
Sadhan Sampann Dukhi Daridra – Materially Affluent, Unhappy andDeprived.
But these are states we don’t want to be in. We want to move from this to third category i.e.
3. Having physical facilities and feeling happy and prosperous i.e. SSSS: Sadhan
Sampann Sukhi Samriddha – Materially Adequate, Happy andProsperous.
Presently, as we look around, we find most of the people in the above two
categories called SVDD and SSDD, while the natural acceptance of all human beings is to
be in the category of SSSS.
Q 22. “Physical facilities are necessary and complete for animals, while they are necessary but
not complete for humans.” Comment.Explain how physical facilities are necessary but
not complete for humans while they are complete foranimals.Physical facilities are
necessary but not complete for human being. Do you agree with this statement? Support
your answer with reasons and examples.
ANS. Physical facilities are necessary and complete for animals, while they are necessary but
not complete for humans. It is easy to verify.
For Animals : Animals need physical things to survive, mainly to take care of their body. For
example; cow will look for food when it is hungry. Once it gets the grass or fodder. It eats it,
sits around to chew at leisure. Hence, we can say that as long as animals have physical things,
they are largely fine. They don’t desire other things like knowledge or a peaceful animal
society or getting a good MBA.
For Humans : While physical facilities are necessary for human beings, they are not complete
by themselves to fulfil our needs. Our needs are more than just physical facilities. We all have
other needs, other plans, perhaps we think of going to a movie or reading a book, or go to
college, or watch some TV, or spend time with family and friends….. this list is endless. Thus
it is easy to see that while physical facilities are necessary for us human beings, they are not
complete by themselves to fulfil ourneeds.Hence we can say that for animals – “Physical
facilities are necessary and complete.” For humans “Physical facilities are necessary but not
complete.”