Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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Moral values and Education
Moral Values and Education
S.R.Bhatt
The quest after values and the attainment thereof constitute the very core of human life. There is an innate necessity in man, caused by his finitude and imperfection, to participate in the process of value-realisation. That is why consciously or unconsciously value-concepts, value discriminations and value judgements feature prominently in his life.
The nature of man is such as to urge him to participate in the fulness of life. to be receptive of the significant and to lie open to whatever has meaning and value. But the question is, how can he know what is valuable in life and how can be realise the same? Any process of value-realisation presupposes knowledge, will, effort and appropriate resources. And it is not an easy task, though not an impossible one. to acquire all the four. That is why, more often than not, value-aspirations and value-pursuits remain mere utopian dreams. This is the travesty of human life that he is mostly ignorant of this summum bonum and even if he may know what he ought to aspire for, he is circumscribed and handicapped in realising the same.
The present day world is passing through value-crisis which has pervaded all the spheres of value-realisation. This is more alarming in the moral sphere. A deeper penetration into the problem may reveal the fact that the present day tendency of value-nogativism is a resultant phenomenon of the loss of faith in the moral order. The inevitable consequence of such a circumstance has been the disappearance of moral virtues and spread of vices. In order to resolve the valuecrisis both prevention and cure are to be employed simultaneously. For this purpose the system of education, which is the most important and foundation at sphere of value-realisation, needs to be given serious and meaningful attention.
A psychological analysis of the pathological cases of norm-violation may bring home to us as to why vice is due to. There seems to be four main types of factors which occasion vice, viz; badness, madness, rashness and folly. We may explain each of these as follows:
January-March 1993