Module 12: Human values and humanism: dilemmas and directions
  Lecture 36: Value Education-I

The manner of spreading education

As said above, value education is imparted through full semester courses among students in a few technology institutions like IIIT Hyderabad and seven-day residential workshops for others – faculty members, farmers, prisoners, common men, businessmen etc – in some other technology institutions. To quote (Bagaria, handnotes):

  • The methodology of this course is universally adaptable, involving a systematic and rational study of human being vis-à-vis the rest of existence.

  • It is free from any dogma or value prescriptions.

  • It is a process of self-investigation and self-exploration, and not of prescription. Whatever is found as truth or reality is stated as proposal and the students are encouraged to verify it in their own right based on their Natural Acceptance and Experiential validation.

  • This process of self-exploration takes the form of a dialogue between the teacher and the students to begin with, and within the student himself/herself finally.

  • This self-exploration also enables them to evaluate their pre-conditioning and present beliefs.