Our answer is that value education is inseparable from moral education. It serves the interests of both self and society. It is based on the framework of universal morality. The teaching of values should be integrated with both co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Further, value education should also include critical reflection on what is imparted as value education. In other words, value education aims not only on dissemination of values but also at examination of values. Finally, the real test of effective learning of values is to examine to what extent they have been followed in life.

Government of India has opened a National Resource Centre for Value Education (NRCVE) in the Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations of Education (DEPEE). The objective of the centre is to develop and implement programs and strategies to renew emphasis on value inculcation and develop relevant material for use by various government and non-government groups (http://valueeducation.nic.in/intro.htm). Its activities include:

1. Researchers related to study of programs on value education, analysis of NCERT science textbooks, the value of ‘compassion’, and spirituality and counseling with a view to arriving at information which could be used by interested groups.

2. Annotation of various types of materials relating to value education in India.

3. Preparation and production of supplementary reading material for students for inculcation of different values using stories, parables, anecdotes from literature on different faiths.

4. Resource material for (i) value-education for use by parents, teachers, teacher-educators, and counselors, (ii) training of teachers in values; (iii) training of teacher-educators in affective development with emphasis on arts and aesthetics; and (iv) using dramas as medium for value-development.