A positive childhood in love and care is the most influential factor for the development of a strong human being. With busy working parents, broken families, schools are hopelessly over-strained with this responsibility. Most of our fairytale culture is based on the idea to teach moral concepts to children through some literature and assessments, which do not give any guarantee that they have been learnt and imbibed in behaviour.
I am stunned to see advertisements on ‘Value Education Products’. Recently, I met a self proclaimed value educator in one of the Education Fairs. Last week I met her in my office, who showed me on her laptop how she is going to conduct Value Education classes. There were some animations and an online test. Higher the test points, higher the value imbibed by the student. I was amused when she said, ’you can assess your students on the basis of the score they get in MCQ test!!!! No wonder increase in crime rate is directly proportionate to this kind of value education!!!!
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PHOTO COURTESY: Ravi Hegde biologisthegde@facebook.com biologisthegde@gmail.com
I feel We both R sailing in the same boat ... It is not maths or history or geo.. to assess on laptops U sometimes need to take kids out to teach other subjects also..... when that is the case ,no chance to learn morals & ethics inside
ReplyDeleteIn our days we were taught inside & evaluated by grades no marks outside the class room by observing how much we have learnt ..while playing .. eating....talking... learning behaving...... etc
well said Jyothsna...
ReplyDeleteMorality and Ethics cannot be just taught in closed walls and in just classrooms and the schools.. It is the overall responsibility of the society.. Morality and ethics are not just restricted to Childhood.. Childhood should have a strong foundation of morality and ethics.. But Morality and Ethics is learnt throughout our life.. Until our death.. Scenarios and situations put up a challenge in life and our response determines our morality and ethics.. An individual can be subjected to challenge and the response determines the level of morality and ethics of the person.
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