Education and Moral Values

Students are the future of our Nation. We are taught moral lessons at home and in school such as love fellow human beings, respect elders, do not do wrong things, never speak lies, love your country, dont be jealous etc. But nowadays everywhere crime flourishes. We see corruption; old people are sent out of home and treated badly. People are unaware of the truth. Jealousy has become the overall base of life. The importance of life should not be taught, but should be trained. We want to have the training through which we develop the feelings of Nationalism and cultivate moral values in our lives. Besides Education, we should be deeply involved in such works through which we develop feelings of love and brother-hood. It is the responsibility of our parents and teachers to make future builders of the Nation. In olden days we used to have Gurukul Ashram type of Education system in India. The students of Gurukul lived a life of tutelage and learnt everything taught by their Guru with love and also by putting in lot of hard work . In the Gurukul every student was treated equally irrespective of caste and economical status. The students are supposed to leave their homes and their loved ones and come and live at the Gurukul Ashram for years to learn the lessons of life from Guru. At the end of the training the students emerged as responsible individuals who were well learned and capable of undertaking any challenge in life. We can explain it in the same way as mud made by God being beautifully modified as water jug by the potter. We can further apply it to our own lives. Our physical body makers are our parents, like God. But our life makers are our Gurus (teachers) who give us a particular turn, shape to our life, just like a potter. Today Education has become just a nine letter word as a superior term in the dictionaries. More over Education system became a business where it is treated like any other profession. The problem is also with us. It is we who make the society. If we improve ourselves, we can improve our society. No one is a born a criminal or a spoilt person. Its the environment that is deviating the child way from taking the right path. Good teachers can bring the change with good Education imparted to the students. Education is the combination of literacy and morale values. We cant get good quality of Education if they were to be seen in isolation. Students are future of a Nation. Everyone has to prepare individually in the present for their future.They have to be mentally, physically, morally and emotionally fit for the betterment of the society. It will be a great achievement if every person can establish himself or herself as a worthy person. Education includes all-round development of a person, so I think social, ethical and moral values should be included in our schools programme. Physical Education, sports and some other extracurricular activities should also be incorporated in our school developmental programme. We should always try to understand the rich culture and heritage of our country. We can be called as Educated then and not as Literates. Well Educated people can build a good society and a healthy Nation. We can remove the present evils of our society by constantly helping each other. Then our Country will become a dream land and a dream destination. Folks, please post your views and thoughts about education and the importance of moral values in our life.

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This entry was posted by Veera Narasimha Raju on April 29, 2011 at 4:52 pm, and is filed under Education. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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#1 written by vasya about 3 months ago Hi !

o #2 written by Veera Narasimha Raju about 3 months ago Hi Thanks for visiting this site.

#3 written by Latoya about 2 weeks ago Right , its not only in India.. it is applicable every where in the world. Latoya South Africa

#4 written by ANANYA about 1 month ago well, this all is so true ..but we as children will never understand cause in our life games parties enjoying life with indicipline and specially facebook has taken up its own place were not only children but adults also are not to happy with all this they do teach us but they themselves dont follow it WHY ? In life i want to be a councilor just to get people on the right track but 70 percent will never agree to right things ..

i got a skool work on moral values i rearly appretiate your work..i lved reading it .. THANK U , I LEARNT MANY THINGS FROM IT

o #5 written by Namrata Dhillon about 2 weeks ago Very valid points

#6 written by Deepa about 1 month ago Well, said- during the Vedic period education was imparted to students in three stages. The first one developed childs mental level; the second one developed his physical level, while the last one developed the childs spiritual level. Thus, it used to lead children over all development. But, now though the education it is being given in three stages, namely primary, secondary and elementary. Its is not fruitful as it was during the Vedic period. I am not saying we should use same education system even after the 1000s of years after, its just basic thing. Its is just increasing the level of knowledge given to them, but failing when it comes to the all round development. Therefore these days the students are coming out as mere literates than educated. Thus, we need to change the education system, so that produces more humanitarians and educated people who can develop our nation India

#7 written by Sivaram about 1 month ago Interesting topic. Education should start at home. Parents should create happy environment at home by teaching morals and also living by their teaching. They should spend some time with the children and play with them apart from showing interest in their studies,sports etc however busy they may be. They should not gossip in front of the children. They should not resort to smoking,drinking, viewing adult movies etc. in front of them. Children get spoiled by this kind of behaviour. Children should be kept away from modern gadgets like cell phones, Ipods etc. Teaching Ramayana, Mahabharatha stories will also help.

#8 written by Helene Enderson about 2 weeks ago Articles like this make life so much sipmler and people can understand easily.