VALUES EDUCATION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Moral education had been a concern for centuries in Indian Education system. Down the ages, India was honored as Vishv Guru because of it's strong value system. But with the passage of time values are drying up in the Indian society to an abysmal low. This paper tries to explore the condition of value education in Himachal Pradesh, and introduction of value education. Value Education tries to introduce students with the concept of values, it's classification, and methods of inculcation of values. Though values are taught as a value; but the need of the hour is to introduce more chapters on practical and theoretical aspects of values. As the problems of depression, delineation, violence at family, society and national and international level are increasing, day by day; it the duty of the Higher Education Institutions to armor their graduates with the weapon of values. Values are very important aspect of human behaviour. If an individual is not possess values, he/she cannot use all his/her full potentialities and perform his/her duties. Further, this affects others in many forms, like conflicts at personal and interpersonal levels, unhealthy social relations at personal and interpersonal level, many kinds of psychosomatic diseases and unhealthy behavioural patterns. For a better future , it is the need of the hour to equip our students or future citizens with values.