| "Today, it is no longer desirable to undertake | | | | drawn up 84 values to be inculcated through education. |
| educational reforms in piecemeal fashion, without a | | | | The cultural values need to be identified for standard |
| concept of the totality of the goals and modes of the | | | | curricula all over the country. Respect for the old, care |
| educational process. To find out how to reshape its | | | | for poor and up-privileged and tolerance should be |
| component parts, one must have a vision of the | | | | some of the values. Value based inter-personal |
| whole". - UNESCO, Learning to Be, The Report of the | | | | relations, importance of racial and religious harmony |
| International Commission on the Development of | | | | and concern for humanity should form the basis for |
| Education, 1972, p.175. | | | | friendship and cooperation amongst the people. |
| The National Policy on Education has laid considerable | | | | Fine arts, music, creative writing, puppetry and theatre |
| emphasis on value education by highlighting the need to | | | | are to be given due place in the curricula right from |
| make education a powerful tool for cultivation of social | | | | school to the university level. The curriculum should |
| and moral values. Keeping in view the pluralistic base | | | | strike a balance between theory and practice. |
| of our society, the education system besides | | | | Creative work in fields of music, dance, literature, |
| preserving our cultural heritage has also to nurture our | | | | drama, visual arts is essential to cultivate the inherent |
| youth to be more adaptable to life in the changing | | | | tolerance of children. Value/moral education should be |
| environment. An inter-linking of education and culture | | | | thought as a compulsory subject up to the high school |
| has also been emphasized in the Programme of | | | | level. |
| Action for implementation of National Policy on | | | | It should be made an examinable subject at the school |
| Education. | | | | level. Evaluation of value education should be based on |
| People say that "Values cannot be taught but caught". | | | | compassion, self-reliance, respect and honesty. |
| Against this belief educationists strongly advocate that | | | | Language is an importance medium for inculcating, |
| values could be taught with sufficient care and caution. | | | | fostering and propagating of moral vales and national |
| The National Council for Educational Research and | | | | cultural heritage. Education through mother tongue |
| Training (NCERT) in its publication documents on Social, | | | | needs to be ensured. |
| Moral and Spiritual Values in Education (1979, p.56) has | | | | |