Values Education

Students are the operator of any developmental trend and activity in society and major determinants of the extent of growth in any nation. Values and ethics should not be taught directly to students but proper nurturing of cognitive honesty…

How does one measure values such as empathy, kindness and resilience? What happens when we measure the wrong things that have no bearing on how well our young people are empowered to live meaningful, purposeful and flourishing lives?

‘Ma’am, what should I do? Are you allowing me to write the paper or sending me home?’ The invigilator was dumbfounded for a second; she had caught this girl using unfair means during her Grade 11 final examination. The girl had around 8-10…

In this competitive era of marks and grades, the demand and supply groove, do you think we are forgetting the most important aspect of education? The value system! Yes, this is the need of the hour. Trending now? Happened earlier? Or…

In today’s world, where corruption, violence, unrest have become so prevalent in our society, schools have an added responsibility to ensure that value education as a subject is taken seriously as a part of the curriculum to produce not…

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive –Dalai Lama XIV. This is not a cliché but a necessity of our times. This is true religion. Love for others and concern for their dignity are all we…

Do you have students and staff members you don’t see every day? Reconnect with your entire school ‘family’ at the beginning of each day in the way that many schools across the country do -- with a ‘Morning Prayer Assembly’. A well-organized…

The multi-dimensional aspect of education, developing the head, the heart and the hand, has propelled many schools to apply such pedagogical methods that sub-serve the above objectives. The pupils are provided a variety of learning…

The present generation is highly indisciplined. They don’t have values. They are forgetting their culture and tradition. They don’t respect elders… This is frequently discussed and debated among the elders and the teacher community. So the…

Self-actualisation deemed to be the highest state of consciousness is what an individual is supposed to aim at in this earthly sojourn of his but instead gets mislead and strays away from his true calling by millions of other things that…