Value Education and Peace Education Educational Paragons

 

Value Education and Peace Education Educational Paragons

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Above mentioned quote by Nelson Mandela is pregnant with a meaning that education is a weapon of social change and human progress. It is also a powerful tool to cultivate values in an individual. And, right education will take a good human being out of students, which seems impossible when it is found that teachers themselves are not sufficiently equipped to enable our nation. That's why most of the schools are struggling to deliver quality education and are creating grade achievers not good human beings with absolute values in them. The welfare of the humanity lies neither in scientific or technological advancement nor in acquisition of material comforts. Rather, it lies in to enrich the character and to make students disciplined in every walk of life.

While teaching students, the schools are training their minds and making them intellectually enriched but they are not helping them grow ethically and morally who can be of great help for the social and national causes in the time of crisis. It is very well said that a good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Therefore, we need to design a new paradigm which will be a proper mix of Quality Education in Peace -Loving Environment. When a student obtains a high grade in the examination; it does not talk about Quality Education, if he fails to acquire social and humanitarian skills. Quality Education talks of a set of skills necessary in our individual, academic and social life whereas academic attainment is only a portion of that set of skills. The values that a school passes on to students are as important as the school curriculum. This type learning will equip students to overcome obstacles on their path to lead a successful happy life.

As an educationist, I would like to say that it becomes our pivotal role to shape the personality of a child in to a healthy mind and happy souls, who is not supposed to be equipped with 21st Century skills and aptitude required to academic excellence but helping him face the challenges of life in a balanced and harmonious way.

                                                                                               

Arti Sobti

                                                                             Principal

SHIPS, Goraya