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How does Values-based Education differ from Conventional Educational System

Anand Krishna

Conventional Education System

  1. Mainly addresses the head
  2. Geared at passing on as much information as possible
  3. Personal material success, wealth and social status are the main goals
  4. Justifies tricks in the guise of strategy to achieve one’s goals and hoard more and more wealth
  5. Importance is given to comfortable human life
  6. One’s immediate family and friends, or so identified – though they could simply be bootlickers – matter the most
  7. The senses are given free rein, and sensory pleasure is understood as the purpose of life
  1. Attachment to the world and the worldly objects is understood as love and virtue

Values-based Education

  1. Addresses both the head and the heart with equal emphasis
  2. Attempts at the total transformation of inherent animalistic instincts into humane qualities
  3. Happiness and welfare of all beings are the prime most concerns
  4. Teaches one to work hard, earn through righteous means and share one’s blessings
  5. Importance is given to being a good human being
  6. The world is one’s home, and all living beings including animals, plant kingdom and etcetera are one’s family
  7. Strives to attain true happiness by enhancing the inherent intelligence and control the mind and the senses
  8. Love is rightly understood as infinite and unconditional factor, free of all attachments
Values-based Education July 12, 2020