A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW ON THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF VALUE BASED EDUCATION IN INDIA

Abstract

Education is the most powerful weapon for the social changes and developments. Values are a set of standard thoughts and actions of individuals. Values are the basic norms of human behavior. Aims of education are concerned with values. Value based education concerned with the development of the total personality of the individuals- Intellectual, social, emotional, aesthetic, moral and spiritual. It is associated with developing the sense of good and bad, moral and immoral. Need of value based education for the moral development of the human society. Present paper focused on the historical foundation of value based education, from the ancient India to modern India.