VALUES
VALUES-are those beliefs, ideas, attitudes or principles that give meaning and purpose to your life.
They guide the actions that we take.
They help us to determine what is important to us.
They determine the priorities set.
Parents have the great responsibility of helping their children become not just good people but also
great human beings. By teaching your child the right set of values, you can help them develop
better, find their place in society, and even improve upon their skills.
Why moral values are important for students?
Knowing good moral values such as kindness, humility, courage and compassion at an early age
build’s a child’s character.
It forms the very core of their being and becomes a foundation of their moral beliefs.
VALUES ARE BASED MAINLY ON THREE PROCESSES
CHOOSING- A value can only result when there is something from which to choose. These
choices are known as alternatives’
PRIZING- A value is something we hold dear, something we cherish and prize and hold in
high esteem. It is the kind of choice that we would like to speak about in public, such as
honesty, ambition, comfort and desire for knowledge.
ACTING- acting entails doing something with the choice we make. This we repeat several
times in our daily living and so form a pattern of life.
CORE VALUES
INTERGRITY- know and do what is right.
RESPECT- Treating others the way you want to be treated.
RESPONSIBILITY- Embrace opportunities to contribute( reliability and dependability)
SERVANT LEADERSHIP- ready to be of help to someone.( serve the common good)
HONESTY- Truthfulness, sincerity or frankness. Freedom from deceit or fraud
HOPE-To look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence(the feeling that what is
wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best)
TRUST- The obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or
authority is placed. Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability of a person or thing.
FREEDOM- The power to exercise choice and make decisions without constraint from within
or without; self-determination
HONOUR- Honesty, fairness or integrity I one’s beliefs and actions
FAITH- Confidence or trust in a person or thing, belief in anything
SOURCES OF VALUES
THE FAMILY
The family is the most important source of values for the child especially in the early years.
A person tends to have values like hose of his/her family. Many of the values are passed on
through home management via problem solving, making choices, family plans, budgeting
and other activities involving management.
THE COMMUNITY AND THE SOCIETY
The community is regarded as the NEAR ENVIRONMENT and the society as the FAR
ENVIRONMENT. Both play an important part in the shaping of values. Advertising by radio
and television helps to shape our values by the food we eat, the clothes we wear etc…
CONTACT WITH DEFFERENT PEOPLE
Values develop from our contact with people who are not like us; people perhaps from
other places, countries or towns. Students who grow up meeting the same people every day
and having no outside contact are deprived of a broadening of ideas. Moving with different
people helps to broaden the range of experiences which goes to develop values.
REACTION TO AUTHORITY
This authority may be the home, the church, or the laws of the country which set standards
that help develop values.
REACTION TO INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
Values grow from a person’s experiences so that different experiences give rise to different
values. These experiences could arise from the home, the school or the community.
Different people may react differently to certain experiences and so develop different.
values.