Value Education for Young Leaders: Nurturing the Roots for a Strong Foundation

By Dr. P. Hari Krishna

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Aug 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482849998

Dr. P. Hari Krishna

Dr. P. Hari Krishna is presently working as Associated Professor in Civil Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology, Warangal and was faculty-in-charge for Center for value education at this institute. He has been instrumental in organizing many enlightening events both within and outside of the institute for the welfare of the students in general and professionals in particular.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Education

Types of Education

Importance of value education

Necessity of Value based education in the modern society

Major Benefits of Value Education in Professional Institutes

Benefits for students

Benefits for administration

Aims of the book

Necessity of the book

Theme of the book: Adding values to life

LIGHTING UP VALUES

Values based life

Present Day Materialistic Approach

Importance of values in human lives

Wisdom tree

Good foundation to excel in life

Compassion

Love gives but greed takes

Perfect charity

Contentment

Humility

Love means to give and by giving we receive the same

Attitude

Learning how to be successful even from Failures

ETHICS

Ethics

Need of ethics

Educational Ethics

Missing thing in the present modern educational system

Healing the wounded modern world

The values we have are the real valuables

Values to be taught for the present generation

Imparting ethics and values during the educational age

Integrating spirituality with education

Professional Ethics

Positive and Negative attitudes of the professionals

Ideal attitude at work

Integrating spirituality with profession

Steps to make your work as worship

TRUE FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE

Who is a friend?

Important qualities of good friendship

Real Friend

Example of True Friendship

What is Love?

True Love Means To Give

Smiling Faces but Crying Empty Hearts

Love and Lust: What Is The Difference

Message of Love

DEALING WITH HABITS

Habits

Simple, Serious and Grave bad habits

How are Habits Addictive?

What are the causes of addicting to Bad habits?

How some habits are bad though they feel good?

What impels one to go on with a bad habit?

How to have the right perception?

How to say ‘NO’ to Bad Habits?

The Power of Good Habits

HOW TO DEAL STRESS

About stress

Stress in the young age

Importance of Stress

Causes of Stress

Suicides – the present day stupid idea

How to deal with crises in our lives

Art of Tolerance

One who can tolerate is the Great

The data that speaks

Why only humans commit suicide?

Right choice

A call for action on solutions

Practical solutions for youth

Lifestyle management

Learn to manage the Stress

TIME MANAGEMENT

Acronym of Time

What happens to those who do not know how to manage their time?

Why do we need to learn about Time Management?

Problems are caused by chaos – the lack of order in our life

Various Time Management Techniques for Students

Time Management Matrix

Time Management Matrix

List of Time Wasters

Time will devour everything

Time is irrecoverable and unstorable

A wise look about time management

Pearls of Wisdom for Effective Time Management

Practical time schedule of students

Major Benefits of Time Management

SELF EMPOWERMENT

Suicide Factor

Why to commit suicide?

Self Management

Importance of Self Management

Best Solace for Self Management

Need of Self Empowerment in Modern Day Scenario

Successful Tool for Self Empowerment – Working Smarter but Not Harder

Self Control to Achieve the Will Power

Stop Worrying and Start Living Peacefully

What is spirituality and how to be spiritual?

Is Spirituality Scientific and Practical

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES

Leadership

Need of good leadership

Who is a leader or hero?

Foundation of Leadership

Six qualities of a true leader

Bad Leadership – Enemies Within

Good Leadership - Unity is the Strength

Concluding Remarks

INDIAN CULTURE

Culture

India and its unique culture

Support to Indian culture

Vedic wisdom through the epics

Indian Art, Music and Dance

India’s contribution to Science and Engineering

In this book titled Value Education for Young Leaders, the author expertly narrates the advantages of imbibing moral and ethical values in students of higher education. Through his experience in academia and interactions with students, the author aptly brings in the important aspects of stress management and time management thus addressing self-empowerment and principles of leadership. Overall this book could be a great addition to modern educational system, where moral education practically stops at high school. I would recommend this book for all young, bright and energetic students out there who want to improve not just their qualifications but their character.

Dr. Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri, Assistant Professor

CBBE, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey USA

Human mankind takes pride in its so called technical advancement, while it is plagued by the uncontrolled emotions of anger, lust, fear, stress and depression especially by the young generation leading to a kind of violence, which was never experienced hitherto. The present book on Value Education for Young Leaders presents a deep insight into the possible ways of vanquishing these enemies of the so called modern society and shows the path for a happy and peaceful life based on some spiritual facts.

Prof. (Dr.) R.M. Jalnekar, Director,

Viswakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India

In Value Education for Young Leaders, the author points out the general problems faced by the present day young professional students and provide wonderful proven solution to the problem. Surely this is very useful book for all the students.

Dr. Deva Pratap, Prof. & Head, Civil engineering department,

National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India

This book on Value Education for Young Leaders is truly a valuable reference for all the student community to combat the challenges not only in young age but also will be useful throughout their life.

Dr. K. Hima Bindu, Associate Professor,

Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal, India

This book talks about conquering real enemies, enemies common to every human being, those enemies who otherwise seem to be unconquerable.

M. V. Srikanth, Manager, HPCL, Secunderabad, India

FOREWORD

In nature, we have different types of soils and out of them; clay is special in terms of its benefits to human mankind. The clayey soil is soft, supple and it can be moulded into any shape. When this soil is crafted by an expert sculptor it can turn into a master piece. Every student is like impressionable clay and when the student is moulded during his education in correct direction through habits and behaviour, surely he will become a good human being.

After the child is born, he grows and learns many things from his parents, relatives, friends and other members of society. Above all students spend significant period during education – the school, college or university plays an important role in contributing to the moral upbringing of the child. Thus, the author designed this book with valuable principles for young students to read, understand, contemplate and adopt them during their educational stage to become good leaders in the society.

When we compare human being with a tree, then youth will be like a tender plant. When we nurture the tender plant in right direction, a beautiful tree grows. We can characterize a good tree by its strong roots (similar to the good foundation of a building) similarly we can characterize a good student by the values, morals and ethics. At this juncture, I recall a statement by Albert Einstein saying Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of values

This book on value education for young leaders is compilation of wide variety of disciplinary topics which are very much useful to the entire student community in the world. As Dean of research and distinguished professor at University of Texas, Arlington, I am delighted to recommend this book for all the student fraternity who wish to become successful leaders in their family, profession, society and nation at large.

Dr. Anand J Puppala, P.E., F.ASCE, D.G.E.

Associate Dean of Research, College of Engineering

Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil Engineering

The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

PREFACE

For present students teaching is no longer in fashion because learning is their prime motto. This book is a learning resource for those who wish to be successful leaders in their student, professional and family life. This book on "Value education for the young leaders" is a student centred one and contents were arrived by conducting a survey with the students of National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India to have their view point and hence will help in the personality development of students.

Value education primarily deals with leading people towards perfection by taking into account their physical, emotional, intellectual and social needs. Corruption, terrorism, nepotism etc have become routine news in today’s media. Scholars and leaders emphasize Value based education is the solution to solve such type of problems. At this stage a question arises: don’t most people already know right from wrong? Yes, they know - but feel that they will fare better in life without following some of the basic moral codes.

Living by moral principles is like following traffic rules for smooth and safe travel. The main purpose of travel is not to follow traffic rules but to reach destination safely. If a traveller feels that traffic rules delay his journey or obstruct his reaching the destination then he may break them, if he thinks he can get away without any problem. Similarly, moral principles promote orderliness in our lives to reach our final destination. But modern education system, doesn’t teach about the goal of social transactions or of the life itself. Consequently, people may stay moral out of deference to the culture or tradition, but give up morality when circumstances threaten or tempt them.

Many academicians in the field of technical education are feeling the need for imparting values, ethics and morals in modern education. As today’s society has deviated from the good concepts of life, it is facing many calamities. A need is thus felt to revive a collective understanding of value based principles into the educational system, which will help the intelligent and energetic student community to be good leaders in the society.

Being the faculty of a professional institute for more than 2 decades and being the faculty in-charge for Centre for Value education for more than 3 years, I felt that there is a necessity to present the essential material on value based education from the perspective of imparting success into the lives of students. This book is essentially meant for those intelligent and energetic students who wish to identify their correct aspirations and to find out the methods to fulfil them with the theme of "Adding values to life". Many times, students are not in a position to clearly understand the basic necessities to become good leaders in their life and hence, this book is intended to provide the real valuables and ethics for proper behaviour in society along with leading a happy and peaceful life.

The goal of this book is to present the basics of value based educational system along with its necessity. If you visualize yourself as successful, who could lead a satisfactory life and could inspire people around you to know the secrets of satisfactory life - What type of information you will provide to others as means of your successful life?

Through this book the author made an attempt in this regard by presenting the essential topics feasible for lecture based presentations as given below.

Chapter 1 introduces the educational system and different types of it along with the importance of value based education for the students. It also provides the major benefits of opting for value based educational system to both students and administration.

Chapter 2 on lighting up the values, provides the list of different qualities (to have a good foundation in their life) that are to be imbibed by the present students.

Chapter 3 on Educational and professional ethics, details the need of ethics in one’s life and how these values are the real valuables in our life. It provides the scope of imparting ethics and values in the educational system. Further, it gives the details of positive and negative attitudes of professionals and steps to make work as worship.

Chapter 4 gives the actual meaning and important qualities of true friendship and love. With the help of stories from epics, this chapter provides the discussions regarding true friendship with an example and also mentions the basic difference between love and lust.

Chapter 5 on dealing with habits provides details of different types of habits and how some of them are harmful. It also discusses the causes of addicting to bad habits more easily by the present day young generation and provides the methods for saying a big ‘No’ to them.

Chapter 6 on how to deal stress mentions the importance of recognizing the most dangerous disease called ‘stress’ and its causes. It also provides effect of this stress in student life and makes us learn how to deal with this stress factor. Lastly the solutions to the problem of stress were discussed to manage this factor properly.

Chapter 7 on time management furnishes the importance of time and how one should utilize it properly especially during student life. It also gives time management matrix for its effective usage along with wisdom for effective time management.

Chapter 8 on self empowerment provides need for managing one’s own self in the present day scenario with the powerful tool of ‘working smarter but not harder’. This chapter also informs the self control mechanism to achieve tremendous will power and then how one can stop worrying and start living happily.

Chapter 9 on leadership principles emphasizes the need of good leadership in the present day society along with a good foundation through the qualities of a true leader. With the help of examples of good leaders this chapter encourages all the young student friends who are pursuing their studies to become good leaders in the present day society.

A small topic on Indian culture is also presented in the form of annexure for reading. This chapter provides the valuable wisdom we can learn from the wonderful culture of this great nation. Lastly, it also mentions about the great Indian contribution towards science and engineering. Hence, through different contents of this book an effort is made to extract the essential qualities which will help the young generation to lay a good foundation in making them as good leaders.

Before you begin the first chapter, the author wish to offer sincere thanks to the administration and students of our institute for giving a chance to serve centre for value education, which has given required encouragement for the pursuit of this book. Author also expresses his gratitude to all gurus who have enlightened to present this