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Essential Complimentarity of Skills and Values

1. What to do… Purpose… Value Domain… Value Education

2. How to do… Program… Skill Domain… Technical Education

Both are essential – we can not do away with any of them

What is the priority?

Are we ensuring both? With the right priority?

Who decides the value? – and on what basis is it decided?If #1 is not clear, this is decided by others, by assumptions dumped into us, hence

these decisions are not definite

If #1 is clear, the decisions are definite and fulfilling

We can see that both, values & skills, are necessary; they are complementary; the priority is values then skills; we want to decide the purpose or value from within ourselves

(Since it is about purpose, value education is relevant for and can be taken up by teachers from all branches, all subjects)

Activity: An Inconvenient Truth

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Guidelines for Value Education

1. Universal (sarvbhomik)wrt. Time (kaal), Space (desh), Individual (vyakti)Secular, non-sectarian – independent of caste (jati), creed (varg), religion (dharam)

or sect (samuday)

2. Rational – Logical, Appeals to Human ReasoningIndependent of whims, fancies, open to questioning and explorationObjective results

3. Natural (sahaj) for Human Beings, for Rest of NatureNaturally Acceptable to every Human BeingThere is every provision in Nature for its fulfillment (kiya ja sake, jiya ja sake, vaisa

jeene ka prakriti me pravidhan ho)

4. All Encompassing, Holistic PerspectiveAll Levels, Full Expanse of My LivingAll Dimensions of My Individual Existence

5. Experientially Verifiable: Ensuring Harmony with Human Beings and Rest of NatureLiving this way with other human beings leads to mutual happinessLiving this way with rest of nature leads to mutual enrichment

Content of Value Education

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Content of Value Education - Structure of this Introductory Course

Module 1: Course Introduction - Need, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process for Value Education

Module 2: Understanding Harmony in the Human Being - Harmony in Myself!

Module 3: Understanding Harmony in the Family and Society- Harmony in Human-Human Relationship

Module 4: Understanding Harmony in the Nature and Existence - Whole existence as Co-existence

Module 5: Implications of the above Holistic Understanding of Harmony on Professional Ethics

See Brochure for more details

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Process of Value Education

Self exploration

Whatever is said is a proposal – to be explored within yourself

Do not accept it just because it is – written in some book

– a reading from some instrument

– stated by some person

Which process is acceptable to you? a) Directions in the form of do’s & don’ts, assuming without verifying (updesh)

b) One in which you can verify on your own right

We will elaborate on this further

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Urgent Need for Effective Inputs in Value Education

Thus we urgently need to cater to this domain adequetely in order to fructify our efforts on skill development – along with proficient engineers, we want to ensure that we are making good human beings

It is the prime purpose of this interaction to sufficently highlight this need and to visualize tangible steps towards fulfilling this

We shall also have a glimpse as to how this important input can be effectively integrated in our present day curricula

Accordingly, we shall be discussing this input in the form of “A Foundation Course in Human Values & Professional Ethics” and how we may contribute to this significant experiment