Our attitudes towards life, work, other people and society are generally shaped unconsciously by the family and the social surroundings in which we grow up. Some of these unconsciously acquired attitudes and values are often undesirable in the citizens of a modern democratic and egalitarian society. (a) Discuss such undesirable values prevalent in today’s educated Indians. (b) How can such undesirable attitudes be changed and socio-ethical values considered necessary in public services be cultivated in the aspiring and serving civil servants ?

Family is the nursery where blooms of values & ethics in children are cultivated.

It forms the first building-block of the value system of the society.

Family enables a child to inculcate the basic human values like love, compassion, honesty, brotherhood, tolerance, self-respect, pride in our own culture while respecting others, humanity, accountability, loyalty, consideration, and many more.

A child can be taught to stand by the values & principles in his life while making decisions.

Family enables mental growth and decision making power of a child.

Parents & elders act as role models and children tend to emulate them.

Foreg. (1) when parents follow traffic rules, children are more likely to do so.

a family where a girl child is treated as a second citizen, the boy raised in such a family will treat his wife in the same way & find nothing about it.

Thus, as APJ Kalam mentions how his father taught him values of a good person - not accepting gifts - made him a great personality of all times.

In order to accommodate new challenges in value education, following modifications can be made: