On an average, 220 days in a year are school days for children. Since the days are scheduled with regular classes, events, festivals and more, a bigger aspect that can eventually define the student’s long-term behavior loses its focus. Do you feel it is important for schools to inculcate value-based education programme to help children in academic development?

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What is Value-based
Education Programme?

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Imagine a classroom of students learning the importance of love, peace, respect
and other values. Now imagine a classroom looking into their textbooks to
understand Newton’s Prism Experiment and moving on to the next subject. If you
look at the larger picture – by combining both of these – you will be able to
imagine a classroom full of students who are not only learning enthusiasts but
also leaders of the future who will be able to spread love and kindness.
Embedding moral values in a student’s daily life brings happiness in school as
well as at home. Building relationships through these values becomes easy.
Often, students begin to learn values at home and then carry it to their work
atmosphere. However, if we have to teach the students, it is the teachers who
must be trained first. Many organisations including UNESCO, ACTS and others,
have created training material that highlights the importance of value education
and how it can be developed as part of syllabus.
What are the values?
According to the framework created by NCERT (National Council of Educational
Research and Training), values are defined as something that ‘regulate and
guide human behaviour and action in our day to daily life.’
We would like to highlight 3 values that are important for every child:

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1.Peace
One of the main values is creating peace amongst us. When we build peace
within our environment, there is a greater opportunity to foster other values as
well because all other values are rooted in peace. Akshaya Patra, a charity for
children, supports peace by providing access to healthy food. Lack of food may
cause insecurity and therefore, contribute to a hostile environment. By
providing food with help from charity fundraising, Akshaya Patra promotes
peace.
2. Trust
Believing in someone does not come easy. For you trust someone, that person
must have built this value through actions and words. Similarly, for someone to
trust you, your actions and words must speak. This value, unfortunately, is most
difficult when tried to inculcate among the elders.
3. Respect
How often have we heard or said ‘Give respect and take respect’? Maybe it’s a
line that never gets old but the message it has will always stay strong. Respect is
a universal human value towards not just our race but to nature, planet and
everything that surrounds us.

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The NCERT report says, ‘If we try noticing what a person does in spare time
when he or she is not being coaxed or threatened to do a particular activity, we
may get some ideas about what he/she values.’ Let’s bring value education into
the classroom and fill the student’s mind with values – values that will help
protect the planet, values that will help in spreading joy and values that will help
in respecting the elders.
Akshaya Patra is an NGO that provides mid-day meals to over 1.6 million
children every day. You can sponsor a child and receive 100% tax exemption as
per section 80G of income tax act.
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