WE live today in a rapid changing world at a accelerated rate. Today's education is so different from the one we were educated in. So we, as educators, need to prepare our children to face the challenges that the future holds. It's true that children must be taught how to think not what to think. And for this, we, the teachers have to motivate them for getting knowledge, imagination and innovation by implementing in them the urge to learn through the curriculum. We need to motivate the weak, to address the average and challenge the gifted and prepare the children to face life's ordeals. Even as our teaching must impact education to match the advancement in technology and globalization with the ethos of moral values and principles. We endeavored constantly to instill these qualities in our children and pride ourselves to help them grow and development sensitive and responsible citizens of the next generation. As "Educating the mind without the heart is no education at all".

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By Savita Saxena , Senior Staff Editor, AMI

Education is a personality building process. It has always been linked with society. It has both a personal and social dimension and like the two sides of the same coin, these are inseparable.

The real education does not consist in packing the brain with information but by developing the right character. Education without character is like a ship without a captain. Values go a long way in building a person’s character. Qualifications and skills are essential in the success of an individual but without values he is incomplete as a person. Education teaches knowledge but life requires wisdom. One helps you making a living, the other helps you making a life.

At present, our younger generation is just being prepared by developing their cognitive domains. Today what is being done is to educate the heads and hands and not the hearts. Mere teaching, learning, improving knowledge and skills without building character and mind may not contribute to the holistic development of children, which is a must for the world to become a better place. Lack of value education has been an important factor in the global scenario of growing violence and terrorism and ecological imbalances. Values are virtues that are imbibed by the children by their surroundings, the environment in which they are brought up, in which they live.The people around them play a vital role in leaving an impression on the tender minds of these young individuals.

The need of the hour is to impart value based education. The stress should be on the values such as patience, honesty, tolerance, sympathy and love. The youngsters need not only to be taught how to develop their skills talents and abilities, they must also be taught how to use these skills for the welfare and betterment of all. Once values become one’s priority in life, all the negative aspects of life will automatically dwindle. The world direly needs people with high value to make it a better place to live in.

By Poornima Gangale , Junior Staff Editor, AMI