CURRICULUM
How does Values-based Education differ from Conventional Educational System
Anand Krishna
Conventional Education System
- Mainly addresses the head
- Geared at passing on as much information as possible
- Personal material success, wealth and social status are the main goals
- Justifies tricks in the guise of strategy to achieve one’s goals and hoard more and more wealth
- Importance is given to comfortable human life
- One’s immediate family and friends, or so identified – though they could simply be bootlickers – matter the most
- The senses are given free rein, and sensory pleasure is understood as the purpose of life
- Attachment to the world and the worldly objects is understood as love and virtue
Values-based Education
- Addresses both the head and the heart with equal emphasis
- Attempts at the total transformation of inherent animalistic instincts into humane qualities
- Happiness and welfare of all beings are the prime most concerns
- Teaches one to work hard, earn through righteous means and share one’s blessings
- Importance is given to being a good human being
- The world is one’s home, and all living beings including animals, plant kingdom and etcetera are one’s family
- Strives to attain true happiness by enhancing the inherent intelligence and control the mind and the senses
- Love is rightly understood as infinite and unconditional factor, free of all attachments
Values-based Education
July 12, 2020