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social being, otherwise his behaviour shall only be of bestial type, even though the man would be living in the garb of a human being.
Actually the numerous social aberrations which we are witnessing in this present day trouble-torn world of ours are only due to the reasons of lack of proper social and moral values practised by the man. This is an important field for our study and eventual implementation and it is the very foundation on which the man bases all his activities. But how can a big edifice stand on no foundation or even on weak foundation ? Certainly not. Hence, it is imperative for all people to have a proper orientation and due implementation of the principles of social, moral and ethical values, otherwise, we cannot expect to hope for the good results to crop up, whether sooner or later. How would it be possible to effect solutions of the problems which we actually do not want to solve, rather put them under the carpet whether rightly or wrongly, consciously or unsonsciously or to gain time with the hope that something good might come up even in the wake of the existing social aberrations. This can never be the case. Definitely we have to repose our faith in the social, moral and ethi. sal values for due observance on the part of everyone, as a matter of fact and as a way of life; this has to be practised not only in one's country alone, rather to be done so simultaneously on global level.
It is an admitted fact that the lack of social, moral and ethical values in education has eaten the very social vitals and fibres of the human polity and civility. In a way. perhaps clandestinely, we wish to naintain the status quo and in the other way we talk high about the system and do not care much for their due observance on the part of the people. All people talk in terms of social and moral value system and expect others to behave as such, but ironically and sarcastically, the preachers and preceptors do not practise themselves all these saner principles of life. Then how can it be possible for others to emulate
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