Volume : 5, Issue : 9, September - 2016

MORAL VALUES IN STUDENT�S LIFE : NEED AND IMPORTANCE

Dr. Girdhar Lal Sharma

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Moral Value means primarily to prize, to respect, to assess, to calculate; its meaning is the act of cherishing something, holding it dear, and also the act of passing judgment upon the nature and amounts of values as compared with something else. Moral values are values that express ideas about the good and principled life. Moral Education is a subject introduced in the primary school and is continued further at the university level as a strategy to ensure that all students are able to choose right from wrong and make ethical decisions. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to propose-implementing a community-based project as a teaching and learning model for moral education, a strategy, which facilitates student&lsquo;s learning and acquisition of lifelong values and also to emphasize on its needs and importance. Moral values are blend closely in all aspects of teaching in the curriculum, in the school, higher education, culture, and in teacher&lsquo;s behavior. In present scenario where we live, the society values material gains and profits above all. It is not an enhancement if to say that in this materialistic era of science and technology, everything except morality has reached to its level. Moral values unlike other aspects have gone into depth where human existence and its future looks dull and in dark. Attitudes based on moral values refer to being in society, being with others, and the reflective view on one&lsquo;s own identity. It is a process of growing into cultural practices and positioning oneself by articulating what is valuable, it is a personal reconstruction of cultural practices and narratives. It is making sense of your life. The present paper highlights need and importance of moral values in Student&lsquo;s life.</p>