Nurturing Character Strengths, Gratitude and Values in Classrooms

This paper tries to focus on the need of improvement of the quality and relevance of value education at different levels of education. With the alarming deterioration of values among the students, the need of the hour is to introduce significant changes in the curriculum at various levels in order to boost values among the students at the school level. The need of the hour is systematic and thorough high quality research work to inculcate these values among the present and future generations. Value education needs to be made more systematic and more practical. Teaching the students only the contents, will not help. There is need of sincere efforts on the part of teachers, students, parents and society as well. Formal as well as non-formal education both are required to be involved.