Wednesday, 19 July 2017

Values of Education

Every day we learn values of Education in our life. Values make our way of life and give us direction to live our life in a successful manner. The society, institutions teach us values. The most useful and powerful way to learn values is considered the educational institutional platforms. Where children in their early ages are sent to get education for life, which comprises of social and educational learning of academics, traditional and cultural values. What are values of education actually?
Values of Education actually are to learn to live according to the cultural and traditional norms of the society. We adopt our own culture and traditions and grow accordingly and pass on to our generations the values of our forefathers and society. In Schools and Universities we go to learn human values like;  Respect, love, Responsibility, loyalty, punctuality and many others.
Values of Educations make the society more civilized. Values of education also promote and enhance our old traditional values. A value of education also creates diversity through institutional learning.  Values of education also provide an opportunity to people of diverse cultures to come together and learn each other’s culture and traditions.
In today’s world people are more materialistic, more professional, more selfish and do not bother about values of culture and traditions. People are on facebook, cell phones all the time for business, and information, and finding entertainment. It does not make difference among the parents and children.

When we talk about values of education, and we see the changing trends of our education system, and daily changing social behaviors of the children and elders, for a moment we find our-selves no- where that our children really growing in a society where they are learning values. The social media is playing vital role in promotion of cultural and traditional values. The diversity in cultural and traditional values making the children learn all cultures and we are forgetting our own traditions. I see decade back, when I can remember that children were taught about cleanliness in the schools, the students were obeying the teachers to clean their class (picking the wrappers) after the break during school time. But now days I have experienced that teachers can-not order the students to pick up the wrappers. Students simply say that, I am not servant, although may be that child would belong to very poor class of society.   
The diversity in education has changed the class room teaching and learning. In this Era of social media, the children although they belong to poor family background or rich family background have earned self-respect.
In this Era of diversity in education system, children have also earned to learn abusive culture. Children have been reached early in their age of maturity. The teen age have been reduced to its maximum age of 9 years.
 The schools are failing to teach children the values of respect, love and responsibility.
It was time when students only listen to teachers for values, that my teacher has taught me to respect parents. But now days children follow face book posts that values are only that what my friends are saying……….
If we look back decade or two.. in government schools values of education period was taken on every Friday, which was called “ Bazam-e- Adab” and values of love, respect and discipline were taught. But now days it is surprise to share that in this “Bazam-e-Adab period students on the assembly point are told about “Dengue” mosquito or other issues.  The awareness on health issues has overcome values of education.

Asif Kaleem Jamil
CAL Pakistan
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