Today's society is running towards material contentment and in doing so, it has started loosing the human values .Too much effort to make money is not good as we are imparting wrong teachings to our children. it is high time that we wake up to these realities and begin to change the order of our life of our society .What is needed is regeneration of human values and more universal approach to life.
We live in a wonderful universe in which everyone and everything gives.The trees give. The rivers give. The earth gives. The Sun, the Moon and the Stars give. However, alas, the man is an exception: He is always anxious to receive, to grab, to amass and hoard, and not to share. This gives rise to discord and conflict in the society. Moral and ethical values are forgotten. Corruption, violence, and all negative and disruptive tendencies have gained an upper hand in the society.
In such a situation, well-meaning individuals have to sit up and act to arrest this trend and bring about a total change. If the society is to be saved from these degenerate tendencies ,immediate steps should be taken to give thrust to Value Based Education(VBE)
that would help build up character through moral and ethical values values as distinguished from materialistic and selfish values,because our hope lies in the proper upbringing of the young.
Education institution play the most crucial role in imparting moral education to children.Let us plant the sapling of character building, and water them with moral and ethical life in the garden of educational institutions. Character is more important than vigor of body and keenness of intellect. It is the soil on which all must grow. If that is defective, nothing can come to fruition. Men must be faithful to their word, respect mutual obligations, and be kind to one another and place the welfare of others above personal gains. Otherwise, the community as a whole cannot progress and the nation cannot march onwards, whatever be our levels of learning and the percentage of literacy in the population. We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, heart is mellowed, intellect is expanded, and one acquires an integrated personality.
Schools should be the center of culture; imparting education to develop the intellect. Educational institutions should aim at improving the quality of life and the standard of living of an individual. The former draws it's sustenance from spiritual, moral and ethical values while the latter from secular subjects. Education, to be effective, requires the cohesive involvement of parents, teachers and students.
Text books or the school education should become a medium for boys and girls to learn what is right and what is wrong in life. Education should not take them further and further away from their fellow beings and confine them in narrow circles of their own comfort and advancement. It should enable them to understand and appreciate their rich heritage. They should become aware of their duty to their fellow men and the country, in a spirit of extending the frontiers of their hearts and widening their family circle to gradually embrace the whole universe. Just as a bird needs two wings in order to fly in the sky, we human beings need human values in both material and spiritual aspects of life to make our spirit fly as an enlightened soul.
