A STUDY ON VALUE-CRISIS, ISSUES AND PRACTICES

India is considered by most ancient land with the richest heritage and glorious past spanning of 25 centuries and a mythology that goes back of 5000 years. Values are central to the moral philosophy of human civilization. Values are considered traditionally to be the prerogatives of the religions and they are viewed as being embodied in the family unit. Yet, the great and the little known civilization have been struggling with the issues of human frailty for the last 25 centuries. Our collective inability to live up to our espoused values and moral principles has paved the way for a long but slow moral decline. Today we face a crisis of values. When adults emerge from their educational alma mater, it is important that they are having qualification to facilitate financially rewarding employment. Many elements however, are essential as When adults emerge from their educational alma mater, it is important that they are having qualification to facilitate financially rewarding employment. Many elements however, are essential as preparation to meet social challenge and the stress and expectations of life in the family the community and the workplace. Swami Vivekananda defined education as “The manifestation of the perfection already in man” By using the expression “perfection” he directed attention to the divinity inherent in every one. Value education has huge meaning in our life, but sadly the meaning is reduced to the fact that it will go on to become our source of bread and butter. I believe that value education is not an accessory to life but it is a necessity. It is the vehicle of knowledge, self preservation and success. It give not only a platform to succeed, but also the knowledge of social conduct, strength, character, self respect, unity, peace, happiness, hopes, humility, simplicity, trust, freedom, co-operation, honesty. The greatest gift education gives us is the knowledge of unconditional love and a set of values. These values include the sample difference between right and wrong. Emotional maturity, a belief in God, the importance of hard work and self respect. Learning from people, learning from success and failures, learning from leaders and followers, and then growing up to be the person we are meant to be. Value based education is a 3 fold development of any individual of any gender and age, but most importantly of a child. It tries to develop 3 aspects; physique, mentality and character. Even though physique and mentality are important, they are menaces without the third because character is the greatest of these. Value education is a tool which not only provides us a profession, which we can pursue but also a purpose in life i.e., to know oneself and be ourselves, It give us most supreme knowledge knowing oneself, which helps us to make our life and to give him an opportunity of performing himself on the global stage. Present education scenario is there is supposedly more education now, but there is also more corruption, more greed, selfishness, poverty, and lack of sincerity and integrity, because, now education is synonymous with examination, employment, empowerment, unfortunately it no more stands for emancipation, ennoblement and evolution. Education is for a Holistic life and not for a mere living; it needs to be enriched with values. Fourty years ago, ethics still mattered. As a child, the most popular story I heard was that of a poor school boy, who stole a neighbor’s gold chain, his mother patted him affectionately, as she could now buy him good cloth and food, the boy went on to steal bigger things. As he graduated from one level of crime to another, he finally attained skill in big time robbers. In one robbery he also killed him victim, he was arrested and sentenced to death when he was asked his last wish, he bought to see his mother, then his mother’s ear and said if you had done this to me the day I stolen, the sold chain, I would not be dying today. We were taught that the sin of the mother was greater than that of her son. Therefore, it is necessary that our students are educated in spiritual value. It gives a positive, healthy attitude, and the right values a balanced emotional outlook, a regulated mind which is able to think clearly and answer without any ambiguity. Every soul to a greater or lesser extent is spiritually depleted at this time, loss of spiritual energy and purity has caused character defects, damage to the moral consciousness and crisis in values. Doing everything in the remembrance of God, so that anything we do has a thought of divinity attached to it. This motivates us to keep the highest goals in all aspects of living and prevent us at able times from doing anything wrong. We get one quarter of the knowledge from teacher, one quarter from yourself by self analysis, one quarter from others, and rest one quarter living the process of living. We blessed souls prayed to be led from darkness unto light (Thamas omaa jyothir gamaya) Desired to evolve from evil to good (Asatho maa sath gamaya) Who proclaimed that their shall be no malice any one (maa vidvishavahai) and who prayed fervently for the good of the world. Lokaa samasthaa sukhino bhavanthoo Erosion of values in a concern of India Commission and Committee set up by the government of India. Since Independence have emphasized education in values for people to inculcate truth, peace, love, and co-operation. Corruption, bribery and nepotism are prevalent at all levels of the society, through the laws are against them. Greed is at the root of this attitude, which can be prevented only by voluntary self-restraint and inspiring leadership. Education today is primarily focused on material development and raising from a loss of human and moral values…as a consequence of this focus and the prevalent perception, that education in human and values is necessary. Value education enriches our personality when it is integrated in to education, and provided to both genders equally, it equips people for civic life and helps boost the confidence of socially disadvantaged individuals and inspires them to claim their self respect. The dominant authority’s to-day are science and technology, and this materially based culture is blamed for the loss of human and universal values. Traditional education for general intelligence has shifted to the utilitarian theory of education which encourages competition at the cost of a person holistic development. This has contributed to a changed morality; the old methods of dealing with anti social behavior have been recognized as in effective. We must now reconsider out assumptions and apply new approaches to find a solution. We need to combine the utilitarian pursuit of education with spiritual, cultural and aesthetic values to obtain optimum result. In our daily life, most of us have been a witness to or a victim of the corruption thriving in some or the other part of the country. It could be in the other part of the country It could be in the form of a taxi driver manipulating the meter to jack-up the reading or a government officer taking bribery to promptly transfer your file to the next department or even yourself offering bribe to a traffic police on breaking of signal. This study is aimed at to see how far it spread among common people. What are its evil effects and what sort of solution can be suggested to eradicate corruption, bribery, nepotism, terrorism by giving value-based education from the primary school level and analysis the crisis while adopting moral value day to day life, so the study has been styled as “VALUE CRISIS – ISSUES AND PRACTICES” with special reference to people in MALABAR, the northern districts of Kerala.