Question- Give the philosophical or educational interpretation of values.

Answer -

In its philosophical or educational interpretation value signifies neither a thing nor an individual, but a thought or a point of view. As such, anything which is useful to an individual becomes valuable to him. The very same thing may be quite useless to another individual and as such it is of no value to that individual.

Educational values are related to those activities which are good, useful and valuable from the point of view of education and has already been pointed out that according to Adams it is a bipolar process which has two parts—(1) The teacher and (2) The Child. The teacher, in order to mould and modify the behaviour of the child employs various strategies and tactics to achieve the desired behavioural change in the child. He performs all these activities, because he thinks them as valuable for the purpose in view. As the teacher provides an environment of utility and value to the child, in the same manner the child participates only in those activities which he considers useful and valuable to him. Thus, the teacher and the child participate only in those activities which they consider as educationally useful and valuable. According to Cunningham educational values become aims of education. According to these qualities, abilities and capacities are promoted in the individuals, which are inherently values of life.

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