Bring values back

Annalyn Mercado Barrera

BECAUSE of technological developments, personal relationships, friendships and rapport are affected, as well as good and moral values of people towards others - which sadly, has also been diminishing over the years.

This is a fact now: There is less personal communication and interaction among people because of the rapid development of communication technology which include gadgets and laptops used in social networking sites.

What is lacking nowadays is personal human touch. This is usually the scenario in some households: kids, after school, would come up to their rooms, gadgets in hand. Parents come home from work, open their laptops and do some work again. Parents and kids barely speak, and thus have lost the personal human touch.

Kids now also have somehow lost the respect supposed to be accorded to their parents.

Incidents like these are alarming and should be stopped. There is a need to bring good values back – and to bring Values Education back, which involves the restoration or reinforcement of what is good in people with respect to their treatment or interaction to other people.

Values Education strengthens the moral fiber of people and establishes good relationships with others, bound by respect and moral uprightness.

The inculcation of values actually starts at home, but it can also be taught and learned in school, especially that teachers act as the second parents of students. They are the ones who give children guidance and enlightenment.

Values education is very important, and we should not allow our students to lose their values at a very young age. It is never too late to repair the damages, if any.

As adults, and as educators, we are duty bound to always maintain the good values that we have and even strengthen them with proper education of our students.