Spiritual Meditations
Value Education: The Non-Preachy WayModern 'mainstream' education is faced with a major crisis of meaning. Although it may seem to do well in imparting information, it miserably fails in inculcating positive human values in students. While it seeks to cram children's heads with facts and figures, it does little, if anything at all, to make them better, more loving, joyful and compassionate human beings. Contemporary education being geared essentially to training students for the job market, children are carefully schooled in such values as aggressive competition, self-centredness, blind imitation of Western culture and unbridled materialism and consumerism. Positive values, such as concern for society, particularly the under-privileged, love, sharing, handling relationships, dealing with insecurity, failure, rejection, jealousy, anger and conflicts within and without the family, respect for cultural and religious diversity, caring for the environment and so on, receive little or no attention. If at all these values are taught, it is in a boring and preachy fashion, unrelated to the rest of the educational system, and fails to make much of an impact. How values should be integrated into modern education thus remains a pressing dilemma.
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