We are living in such a society where there is total deterioration in the moral values and people have stooped too low and are indulging in such activities which speak of the moral degradation. Dishonesty and corruption is the order of the day while Political hygiene is thing of the past. This trend can be arrested in full measure only by providing moral education to the children and younger generation. The laws of the country can help to some extent in curbing such moral decay. Therefore only education rather moral education is the panacea to build a morally and spiritually us and this is good social fabric. Thus moral education is the need of the hour. Education is taken by the modern day society as the bread and butter providing only. It fallows that until you provide value and moral education to the children you cannot lay a strong moral edifice in the society. Thus along with the education for livelihood we have to provide to children the sound moral and spiritual education. So the people sitting at the highest level in the administrative levels should plan and implement the scheme of moral education so that a strong base is laid down for the stable and strong moral society. Not that the efforts were not to provide a morally sound education but still there is wide scope for the value education.Com mission after commission had been appointed to reform the education sector and some thrust was laid on the value education but that did not change the ground situation so for as the providing the moral education to children is concerned.
There is no spectacular change in the education sector as far as provision of moral education is concerned. The education policy of 1986 did provide for the moral education but still we failed to give the value education to our children. Thus there is utmost need to provide our children morally sound education so that honest people are given to the society. We need man-making and character making education in order to provide good and morally strong persons to run the democracy otherwise we will continue to have corrupt politicians and administrators and we will not have honest rulers. One of the aims of our education is to provide good citizens to man the nation but here we are lacking. Thus the present rulers should see to the need of providing of the value education to the children in order to build a morally strong society. The aim of education is not only to give a system of education which will arm the younger generation with the degrees to get the jobs only but also arm the young ones with the much required moral and spiritual education.
In the modern society there is a great and urgent need for value education. There is total value crisis in the society which lead to deterioration in the value system and the urgent need is to give value education to the younger generation. Commission after commission has been appointed in the past to revamp the education sector and to suggest the ways and means to give value education to the children but in spite of this very little has been done to give moral education to the youth. There is moral degradation all around in our society and money is becoming the be all and end all of life and education and this attitude has to be addressed and there is need for revamping of the moral education. We have no dearth of the scientists and technocrats but we are deficient in producing good human beings who will work for the society and brighten the future of the country. Education based on morals is the need of the hour. Today youth are more interested in engineering, medical or MBA. There should be change in psychology through education. Just as the nutritional food is necessary for the growth of body and medicines are required for wellness. Similarly education that teaches us moral values is required for bringing about a change in our psychology. Therefore what is needed is to give a proper place to the moral education so that people with good moral character will be produced and this can be possible only when moral education will be imported along with the formal education. It should be made mandatory to pass in moral studies by a student to enable him to promote to the next class. But in this respect we are lacking and therefore we should give top most attention to the moral education so that noble and worthy citizens will be produced for running of a successful democracy.
(Writer:- Vivek Koul)
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