LESSON 4

VALUES FORMATION AND YOU

WHAT IS VALUES ?
 WHAT IS VALUES ?

• THE REGARD THAT SOMETHING IS HELD TO DESERVE: THE IMPORTANCE, WORTH,

OR USEFULNESS OF SOMETHING.
• A PERSON’S PRINCIPLES OR STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR; ONE’S JUDGEMENT OF
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN LIFE.
VALUES ARE TAUGHT
AND CAUGHT
 VALUES ARE TAUGHT AND CAUGHT

• “ ARE VALUES CAUGHT OR TAUGHT ? “

VALUES ARE BOTH TAUGHT AND CAUGHT. IF THEY ARE NOT
TAUGHT BECAUSE ARE MERELY CAUGHT.
 VALUES HAVE
COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE,
AND BEHAVIORAL
DIMENSIONS.
 VALUES HAVE COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS

• VALUES HAVE COGNITIVE DIMENSION.

WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE VALUE
THAT WE WANT TO ACQUIRE.
 VALUES HAVE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN OF
OBEJCTIVE

• VALUES ARE IN AFFECTIVE DOMAIN OF OBJECTIVE: “ IT IS

NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT HONESTY IS OR WHY ONE
SHOULD BE HONEST. ONE HAS TO FEEL SOMETHING
TOWARDS HONESTY AS PREFERABLE TO DISHONESTY”
(AQUINO, 1990)
 VALUES HAVE A BEHAVIORAL
DIMENSION.
• VALUES ALSO HAVE A BEHAVIORAL
DIMENSIONS. IN FACT, LIVING BY THE VALUE
IS THE TRUE ACID TEST IF WE REALLY VALUE
A VALUE LIKE HONESTY.
VALUE FORMATION INCLUDES
FORMATION IN THE
COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND
BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS.
VALUE FORMATION INCLUDES FORMATION IN
THE COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND
BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS.
• YOUR VALUE FORMATION AS TEACHERS WILL
NECESSARILY INCLUDE THE THREE DIMENSIONS.
• YOU HAVE TO GROW KNOWLEDGE AND IN WISDOM AND
IN YOUR “SENSITIVITY AND OPENNESS TO VARIETY VALUE
EXPERIENCES IN LIFE”
VALUES FORMATION IS A
TRAINING OF THE
INTELLECT AND WILL.
 VALUES FORMATION IS A TRAINING OF THE
INTELLECT AND WILL.

• YOUR VALUE FORMATION IN IS A TRAINING OF YOUR INTELLECT

AND WILL, YOUR COGNITIVE AND RATIONAL APPETITIVE POWERS,
RESPECTIVELY.
• YOUR INTELLECT DISCERNS A VALUE AND PRESENTS IT TO THE
WILL AS A RIGHT OR WRONG VALUE.
• YOUR WILL WILLS TO ACT ON THE RIGHT VALUE AND WILLS TO
AVOID THE WRONG VALUE PRESENTED BY YOUR INTELLECT.
• “ THE INTELLECT PROPOSES AND THE WILL DISPOSES”
 VALUES VERSUS VICIOUS LIFE AND THEIR
EFFECT ON THE WILL

• A VIRTUOUS LIFE STRENGTHEN YOU TO LIVE BY THE

RIGHT VALUES AND LIVE A LIFE OF ABUNDANCE AND JOY
WHILE A VICIOUS LIFE LEADS YOU TO A PERDITION AND
MISERY.
• PANIZO CLAIMS “VIRTUE INVOLVES A HABIT, A CONSTANT
EFFORT TO DO THINGS WELL IN SPITE OF OBSTACLES AND
DIFFICULTIES”
 VALUES FORMATION AND
YOU
• “EDUCATION IN VALUES MEANS THE
CULTIVATION OF ACTIVITY LEADING THE
EDUCAND THROUGH EXPOSURE TO AN
EXPERIENCE OF VALUE AND OF THE VALUABLE”
– R. AQUINO