Value Education & Sustainable Society

Abstract

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

                                                                                                                                         …...Mahatma Gandhi

Value education is a foundation for the growth and development of each and every country. Especially in a country like India, value education plays a very important role in a life of every human being. One can obtain values either by self, through various situation, circumstances, experience etc or by rules and regulation formulated either by a society or by a particular community. Other way through which values can be obtained from family, books, educational institutions, friends, relatives etc. values can be derived from both formal and informal way. Value education is a sum total of persons attitudes, behaviour and positive approach in the society. In this paper researcher has tried to elucidate the importance of values, in our population and in academic curriculum, unfortunately has vanished from today’s society up to certain extent. Certain measures and suggestion are provided in this paper in order to sustain the values in our society. The researcher has adopted secondary method, with the help of articles, journals and various authentic website, researcher has drawn a certain conclusion to accelerate the importance of values in our population.