Human values are fundamental principles and standards that help people distinguish between right and wrong actions. Value education teaches people about what is important for human beings to lead holistic lives enriched with ethics and values, rather than just facts. It helps develop character, good conduct, compassion, and responsibility. Some benefits of value education include exploring inner happiness, strengthening relationships, realizing one's potential, and promoting harmony at all levels of existence.

1. Human Values
Bharti Shokeen
Introduction to Value Education

3. Topics of Discussion
•What do you mean by values?
•Difference between human values and
moral values.
•What is value education?
•What are the benefits of values?
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4. VALUES
• Values are something we qualify as good,
and are prepared to set as goals in life. The
Sanskrit word for value, Ishta, means “the
object of liking”.
• The word ‘Value’ originates from the Latin
word ‘Valerie” . The term ‘value’ is defined
as “that which is desired”.

5. Continued…
• Human Values/ Ethics are the fundamental principles and
standards developed by the society which we consider as a
reference to evaluate our action and decisions in our life.
• Values are additive and we go on adding values in life.
• Values can be both positive and negative. Adding one negative
value may cancel out your two positive values. One must be able
to distinguish between good and bad values.
• Development of values is not a single day process. It is a process
which starts from the birth of Man individual and continues till
the last breath.

6. Difference between Human Values and
Moral Values
• Moral values regard matters of right and wrong whereas human
values help a person distinguish between right and wrong.
• Moral values are constant and unchanging whereas human
values change from person to person and from time to time.
• Moral values are related to self development and self discipline
where as human values are about how we treat others in
society.
• Moral values can be taught whereas human values are
inherited values and are intact in all of us.

7. Value Education
• Value means importance and education means knowledge,
therefore Value Education means the knowledge of something
that is important for human beings.
• Values are the ideas, beliefs and norms that a society holds.

8. Why do we need Value Education?
“Excess of knowledge and power,
Without Values, make human beings devils”. –
Swami Vivekanand
• Education does not simply mean acquiring facts and
information, but also use that knowledge within the right
framework of ethics and values.
• Education is for a Holistic Life and not for a mere living.
• Education needs to be enriched with values and not only
stuffed with facts and information.

9. Importance of Value Education
• Education in values helps in developing:
• Character
• Good conduct
• Moral integrity
• Self-discipline
• Compassion
• Love for all living beings
• Responsibility

10. What is the importance of Value Education?
• Value education helps us to explore our inner happiness.
• It helps us remove the ignorance which covers our inner
knowledge.
• It helps us to build up strong relations.

11. CONTINUED
• It helps us to realize our potential.
• It helps us to visualize our goals clearly.
• It teaches us to be in harmony with self, people around and the
entire world.
• It reduces the feeling of jealousy and promotes brotherhood.
• It widens our perception towards analyzing things.
• It helps us to understand our needs and provides directions to
fulfill them

12. Basic guidelines for Value Education
• The following points need to be considered:
• Universal: Value education is universal which implies that it is
applicable to every individual for all times and space.
• Secular: It is not dependent on any caste, creed or religion and
section.
• Rational: Value education should be in accordance with human
reasoning.
• Natural: Value education course should be accepted naturally.

13. Continued
• Verifiable: There should be means for its fulfillment in
nature. It should not be mere theory based on
assumption.
• All encompassing: It should include all the levels of
human existence like individual, family, society and
nature.
• Harmony: The aim is to promote harmony at all level
namely: Individual, Family, Nature and Society.