Character Building

Character Building in Colleges: A Needed Shift in Attitude and Approach Have you observed that in our colleges, lectures on moral values and character building have once again been added to the timetable? At first, I was curious—what exactly will they teach? Because if I look back to my own student life, the moral lessons we received often turned out to be false, impractical, or at times even hypocritical. We watched our teachers preach values that they themselves did not live by. If they were truly successful in their careers, it seemed they had achieved it without practicing those so-called ethics. And if they were applying them blindly, then they often ended up being naïve and sidelined—hardly role models worth following. No wonder many of us grew sceptical, dismissing such sessions as irrelevant and disconnected from reality. The Problem with Old-Style Teaching Most teachers—even with the best intentions—slip into monotone sermons when teaching values. They...