Imparting Universal values through puppets and creatIve storIes

Education serves as a catalyst in the perpetuation of culture, offering new alternatives and in bringing about social change. Education can best achieve the goals of self-realization concerted action and social recreation. To face these humanistic issues and to build the students into integrated beings, the home, the school and the society assume a vital role. These complex forces have varied positive and negative influences on the students‘ life and their progression towards an Integrated self. It is for us as educationists, parents and responsible citizens to neutralize the detrimental influences of societal factors and to harmonize the impact of positive influences through education which in turn would contribute to the development of an integrated self. Real education means that a human being is capable of being individualistic and at the same time is able to contribute as a worthwhile member of the society. The school is a centre in which a specific concept of the world, of man and of history is developed and conveyed. It‘s also a place of integral formation of persons by means of a systematic and critical assimilation of culture. This process takes place in the form of personal contacts and commitments which consider absolute values in a life context and seeks to insert them into a life framework. The school stimulates the students to exercise their intelligence through the dynamics of understanding to attain clarity and inventiveness, helping him/her to spell out the meeting of his/her experiences and their truths. It is in school that the student is able to draw out the ethical discussion for the precise purpose of arising his spiritual dynamics and to help him in achieving that moral freedom which complements the psychological freedom.