(Nepal) Dhakal for moral education in schools

July 16, 2005

Article published in The Rising Nepal, Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu, NepalJuly 16,

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Dhakal for moral education in schools RSS KATHMANDU, July 15: A two-day training

has been organised in Lalitpur today with an objective of rebuilding character

of young students by including human values like truth, religion and love

propounded by Shree Satya Sai Baba in their text books.Inaugurating the

training programme organised by Jems Graded English School, the Minister for

Information and Communication, Tanka Dhakal said the conflict situation will

come to an end if we could perceive religious knowledge and science from the

same standpoint. Noting that society has bogged down in evil because of lack of

moral values among political parties, he said the government will give top

priority to the recommendation for inclusion of human values in the curriculum

of the students.On the occasion, chief of the Satya Sai Study Center in

Thailand, Dr. Art Ong Jumsai said that he had been spreading the education of

human civilisation

based on moral values in different parts of the world.He observed that such

education would help resolve misunderstanding between teachers and students as

well as help promote human values of individuals, families, and nation as a

whole.Highlighting the objective of the training, Vice president of the Satya

Sai, Nepal Dr. Narottam Upadhyaya said the training was organised to educate

students about human values like discipline, morality etc without making a big

change in their curriculum in order to eradicate existing social evils. Founder

director of the school, Rajesh Khadka pointed out the need of producing humane

teachers in order to rebuild character of the students and resolve the

misunderstanding between students and teachers.In the two-day training

programme, Art Ong Jumsai and Loraine Burows are expected to give lecture on

various aspects of human civilisation and the roles of teachers, students and

guardians. The training is being

participated by 250 teachers from 50 schools.

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