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"While knowledge and skills are being constantly emphasised, the attitude component in education has been very much neglected.

This has resulted in people coming out of the education system with profound knowledge of the arts and science and sound skills but very often with the wrong attitudes, in other words society gets filled up with people who are bereft of good values, specially human values, which would make them good human beings and decent members of the society", said Dr. Uvais Ahamed, Principal, Zahira College, Colombo in his prize day report delivered at the College Awards Day, recently.

The chief guest for the prize-giving was Karu Jayasuriya MP, Minister of Power and Energy. Dr. Ahamed further said, "We know very well that behaviour of persons is influenced very strongly by the attitudes and values they hold. These values and attitudes are developed primarily during the formative years of a person's life and reflect the interaction and religious and socio-cultural influences that impact a person. Good values help promote human dignity.

Emphasising the role education would play in this regard, he said "Educational process constitutes a very vital vehicle to impart value education, which can effectively develop desired attitudes and positive social behaviour and it can help to bring forth socially relevant and useful members in the community.

In this respect it has to be noted that the word "Educare" is becoming very vogue. It is being increasingly emphasised that while educating our kids what we need to impart is "Educare", which would provide them with the qualities and attitudes that would make them decent people in society.

He stressed that at Zahira College every effort is being made to provide constant interaction between the school and the parents so as to ensure that the values imparted in the school are also shared in the home and that neither the school nor the home are at variance with each other.

Quoting from the book "Ignited Minds" by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, he said that according to him the father, the mother and the teacher are the role models a child could have to imbibe good values.

"I personally believe the full development of the child with a value system can only come from these people. In my own home when I was growing up, I used to see my father and mother, say Namaz, five times a day and in spite of their modest financial resources, I found them always giving to the needy around.

My teacher, Sivasubramaniya Iyer was responsible for persuading my father to send me to school setting aside financial constraints. It is very important to every parent to be willing to make the effort to guide children to be good human beings - enlightened and hardworking. The teacher, the child's window to learning and knowledge has to play the role model in generating creativity in the child. This triangle is indeed the real role model, I can think of".

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