It Is Everyone's Responsibility To Educate With Values.
Education in values is a very broad, long and not very specific concept that not only teachers, but also parents and society in general. However, almost nobody pays due attention to him. On the contrary, this issue is left aside in favor of greater knowledge or passing in the subjects.
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There is something much more important than getting a 10, 20,100 or some literal (A, B, C ...) in a test or grade mark at the end of each course bulletin. We refer to the teaching of respect and responsibility, to be part of coexistence and social awareness. Unfortunately, they are few in the education of values as a means to transform society.
Values education is essential
Why are there so many cases of bullying in schools? At what point was everything distorted so that parents lost authority in front of their children? Why do young people leave everything dirty and full of garbage? It is clear: because the education of values does not have the necessary importance.
This is the reason lies in the fact that this kind of education and passing the right way require effort. Why? Maybe we have become too selfish. Maybe the future of our children is indifferent to us.
"Education about equality and respect is education against violence".
-Benjamin Franklin-
Sometimes we believe that we are educating our children in values. Do not we tell you what you should or should not do? Have we not established limits? It is possible that yes, we have no doubts about it. But we set an example? It is useless to say a child "throw the paper in the trash" if, afterwards, we play on the floor and do not take it. We also have to say "you have to do the steps with your brother" when we keep the time inside of us.
The example is the most valuable lesson. The most important values are transmitted through our acts and words. We can not want our children to treat others as equals or we do not do it first.
Thus, the education of values is necessary. Not only for young people but also for us, that we are given the opportunity to learn again what is not learned in the best way.
The most important aspects of value education
It is not only necessary that there be someone who speaks and transmits the education of values, but it is essential that it be found in any other subject. The same way it is important that this type of education is already present in all families and society in general. But in what aspects is the education of values centered?
- Fosters a critical spirit about the customs and habits of users, among many others.
- Highlights equal opportunities, regardless of race, culture, gender, nationality or religion.
- Teach the guidelines for the treatment of the environment with care, avoiding damage and enjoy knowing.
- Transmit tolerance in relation to the other sex.
- Promotes responsible consumption, provides the tools to decide conscientiously.
These are some of the aspects that are tried to transmit with the education of values and that gives us an idea about what is their objective. The big question is: Why not teach values in the classroom or at home? Maybe because in the classrooms, giving the scheduled classes and finishing the curricular grid seem to be the only important things. And at home, because you can not give what you have not learned.
"The objective of education is not the knowledge of the facts, but of the values".
-William Ralph Inge-
Understanding and being now the information on the formation of values opens a range of possibilities to investigate more about it and start transmitting to younger people.
To address this issue, we must take educational values into account as a real priority. Because, above all, we are training and helping individuals to grow. It does not matter just their intelligence or how much they know. It is important that they know how to be good people. Now, for that, we must be aware that this type of education is everyone's responsibility.
