Relevance of Inculcating Values for National Integration

Values relate to the aims of human life. The values have its worth and importance. A value is subject, community and national oriented. Value is the result of interaction between personal and impersonal elements. Today's era is an era of Materialism in which every individual is running behind money. Parents are so much busy in earning money that they are not able to give proper attention for inculcation of values in their children. It is the responsibility of the teacher to inculcate values in the students. Only the inculcation of values in the students can help a lot in bringing communal harmony and national integration. In this paper, a systematic effort has been made to identify meaning of values, their need, principles about the determination of values, classification of values, different values enshrined in the Indian Constitution and role of the teacher in the inculcation of these values among students for achieving the objective of National Integration.