Parent talk

Parent Talk has been one of the initiatives which have provided a platform for the parents, teachers and students where they can share their thoughts.

Mr. Kushal Jain came to Grade VII for a Parent Talk and he chose “Personal Values and Culture” as his topic. Personal Values provide an internal reference for what is good, beneficial, important, useful, beautiful, desirable, constructive, etc. Values generate behavior and help solve common human problems for survival by comparative rankings of value, the results of which provide answers to questions of why people do what they do and in what order they choose to do them.

Over time the public expression of personal values, that groups of people find important in their day-to-day lives, lay the foundations of law, custom and tradition. Personal Values in this way exist in relation to cultural values, either in agreement with or divergent from prevailing norms. A culture is a social system that shares a set of common values, in which such values permit social expectations and collective understandings of the good, beautiful, constructive, etc. Without normative personal values, there would be no cultural reference against which to measure the virtue of individual values and so culture identity would disintegrate.

He created an environment where students discussed about importance of values in their life how they find it relevant. The interactive session helped the students to understand that the values are quintessential in nature as they help them to be a complete person. He told them certain instances which made the students talk about the teachings of their grandparents in the form of stories or preaching.  It was an interesting session.