Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk born in 1863 in Calcutta, India. He founded the Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Math. Vivekananda believed that religion should be at the core of education and advocated for religious texts like the Gita, Upanishads, and Vedas to be part of the curriculum. He saw religion not just as theory but as a practical necessity for developing character, mental strength, and self-realization. Vivekananda's principles of education emphasized developing the character, physical abilities, intelligence, and spirituality of students in order to build a self-confident and self-reliant nation.

1. K.L.E SOCITY’S COLLEGE
OF EDUCATION.
NAME: MONAPPA
ROLL NO:12
TOPIC:ROLE OF RELIGION IN VALUE EDUCATION

2. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
• Swami vivekananda real name was Narendranath
Dutta.
• He was born on janaury 12, 1863 in culcutta.
• His father’s name was viswanath Dutta and his
mother’s name was Bhuvaneshwari devi.
• Birth day of swami vivekananda is being celebrated as
national youth day.
• Narendranath acquired the name of swami
vivekananda when he became a monk.
• As child narendra was very lively and naughty.He was
good in studies as well as games.

3. • He studied instrumental and vocal music and
also practiced meditation from very early age.
• Even when Narendra was young he
questioned the validity of superstitious
customs and discrimination based on caste
and religion.
• The major works of vivekananda includes
karma yoga, Raj yoga,bhakti yoga and janana
yoga.
• The famous vedanta movement was led by
swami vivekananda.
• He founded the ramakrishna mission and
ramakrishna math.

4. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
• Vivekananda said “Religion is the innrermost core
of education”
• Therefore, religious education is a vital part of a
sound curriculum. Vivekanada considered gita
upanishads and the vedas are the most important
curriculum for religious education.
• According to swami vivekananda ‘Religion is not a
therotical need but a practical necessity”
• Swami vivekananda was a great nationalist of
india who wanted to revitalize the nation through
the vitality of religion. He believed that religion
constituted the “centre, the keynote of the whole
music of national life of india.

5. He spoke of man-making education and
accepting vedantic knowledge as the base,
acknowledge the truth of every religion and a
synthesis of yoga.
• Religion played a major role in vivekananda’s
ideas. To vivekananda religion was not only
talk or theory, but realisation of the best and
strongest powers within oneself.

6. VIVEKANANDA’S PRINCIPLES OF
EDUCATION
• Education is not only for getting information
rather it should develop character, physical,
mental power,Intelligence, spirituality and
inculcate self confidence together with self
realiance.
• The technical education was necessary for the
industrial growth which would lead to the
economic prosperity of the nation.
• Education for him means that process by which
character is formed strength of mind is increased
and intellect is sharpened, as a result of which
one can stand on one’s own feet.

7. CONCLUSION
The influence of teacher on the religious beliefs
and moral values of pupils in two multi-racial
comprehencive school was studied.
The country and religion profiles
represent these assumption do the materials
constructed for teachers.
In religious education, the universe consists
of material and immaterial things god has created
the world.