Dear
Sir / Madam
Although
I am an admirer of both Paramhans Jee and Swami Vivekanand Jee, I am writing
this note rather as a language expert to draw your attention to a grave error
in your notification about Three year
Graded Value Education –The Awakened Citizen Programme put on http://www.cbseacademic.in/web_material/Notifications/2014/18_NOTIFICATION.pdf
Please
note that the use of the word value
in the above phrase is incorrect. When this word is used in the sense of
principles, beliefs, etc, it has no singular form. Thus, the correct expression
will be Values Education or Education in Values. Unfortunately
the phrase The Awakened Citizen
Programme is not elegant either. The better expression will be The
Citizen Awakening Programme.
Thus
the improved version should ideally read (with the changes highlighted):
Three-year Graded Values Education
–The Citizen Awakening Programme.
In support of my argument, I have quoted from two
world-renowned Oxford dictionaries; please take a look:
(values) Principles
or standards of behaviour; one’s judgement of what is important in life:
‘they internalize
their parents' rules and values’
beliefs
4
values [plural] beliefs about what is right and wrong and what is important in
life
moral values
a return to traditional values in education, such as firm
discipline
The young have a completely different set of values
and expectations.
I look forward to hearing from you.
With best regards
Hareshwar P Singh
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