The New Education Policy: ‘Re’ Visiting and ‘Re’ Inculcating the Value Perspective

Value Education is important to improve integral growth of human beings. It creates attitudes of human beings and develops awareness of our national history, cultural heritage, national integration, environment in them. The paper is of analytical in nature. It compares the ancient education system which was heavily influenced by the value laden stories of Panchtantra. India's education system was known for value. In this context, Lord Macaulay's addressed to the British parliament about Indian education system, "I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation." British rule and their education system in India diminished this value education and led to all sorts of crimes and problems in the society. Their policy targeted intellectual colonization on the mindsets of Indians which would produce Indians as clerks and other lower rank jobs. Nevertheless, after independence, education policies of India have tried to re-inculcate our ancient values and also to bring the old wisdom back to Indian education system.