Value Education for Young Leaders

Book excerpt: This book is designed basically for imparting Value-based life to young students. The transition of their consciousness is very essential to ensure happiness and prosperity at various stages of their life through proper education. Among the types of education, values based educational system provides the right understanding about the most valuable things of our lives using the principles given in the Holy Scriptures. Life is generally considered as a journey from the station of birth to the station of death with some pleasures and pains scattered in between. But actually life has a higher spiritual dimension which is generally neglected by the present day modern civilization. Therefore, there is an urgent need to impart this type of essential knowledge along with Value- based life principles during education to mould the young generation into good leaders of our society. The salient features of this book are 1. It provides the key concepts for understanding the importance of morals, values and ethics in our lives and to become good citizens with proper behaviour. 2. It gives important values in the lives of people to transform greed into generosity, enviousness into appreciation, arrogance into humility, selfish passions into selfless love along with true friendship. 3. It teaches the theoretical as well as practical aspects of the ancient Vedic aphorism of life is education and education is life. 4. It gives simple tips on dealing habits, controlling stress, managing time along with ethics for a happy and peaceful life. 5. It furnishes an intellectual treat for the self - empowerment of students for working smarter but not harder. 6. It provides value-based leadership principles to make a person as a good leader at different stages of his life - as a student, family member, practicing professional and also as a member of society or nation.