1. Practice Session
for Course in
Human Values and Professional Ethics
Note to Teachers & Students
• These Ppts are designed to help the teachers to
conduct the practice sessions in a systematic and
conduct the practice sessions in a systematic and
interactive manner.
• They are also designed in a manner that the
students can conduct these practice sessions by
themselves and these Ppts provide an interactive
mode for them to conduct the session.
2. Practice Session
for Course in
Human Values and Professional Ethics
• All the teachers/students have to do is
1. Open the required practice session,
2. Read the statements made or questions posed.
2. Read the statements made or questions posed.
3. For a statement see within yourself to find out
whether its true for you or not? For a question,
think over it and find out your answer.
4. Press the forward arrow and go to step 2.
3. Practice Session-2
• Is technological development always a boon?
• List out the problems caused or aggravated by
technological developments.
Here is a list of some of such problems-
Here is a list of some of such problems-
•Energy shortage
•Natural resource depletion
•Environmental pollution
•Global warming
•Ozone depletion
•Deforestation
•Soil degradation
•Nuclear proliferation
•Arms race
•Terrorism
•Criminalization of politics
•Large scale corruption, scams
•Breakdown of relationships
•Generation gap
•Depression & suicidal attempts
4. Practice Session-2
• These problems broadly fall in two categories:
– Threats to survival of life on earth
– Threats to human happiness and peace
• What are the possible causes of these techno genic
• What are the possible causes of these techno genic
maladies?
• Does technology have the solution for these
problems or something else is required to have a
check on these?
5. Practice Session-2
• Technology can be defined as the efficient way of
doing the things which are valuable.
• Does technology provide any basis to decide,
‘what is valuable?’
‘what is valuable?’
• If we keenly look into the possible causes of
techno-genic maladies, it can be found out that the
lack of this competence to decide, ‘what is
valuable’, is the root cause of most of these
problems.
6. Practice Session-2
• Therefore, Technical education without
knowledge of human values can cause more
problems than solutions.
• Value education makes one competent enough to
• Value education makes one competent enough to
decide on his own right, ‘what is valuable?’
• What measures are being taken now a days to
resolve these problems or to minimize the effect
of these problems?
• In order to resolve these problems, are we trying
to ensure proper value education for everyone?
7. Practice Session-2
• Most of the prevailing measures to keep a check
on these problems are based on fear, temptation or
sanctions.
• These solutions can not be sustainable. They may
• These solutions can not be sustainable. They may
be able to temporarily restrain a person.
• In fact, these measures makes a person more
resistant to improvement (SUDHAR) and a bigger
threat to society.
8. Practice Session-2
• Only the solutions based on right understanding
and value based living can be sustainable.
• Therefore, value education is essential, which will
compliment technical education in order to ensure
compliment technical education in order to ensure
the right utilization of technology.
