Role of School/College EducationRole of School/College Educationinin

Road Safety in India Road Safety in India

By DHRUVA TRIVEDY

Country HeadHUBERT EBNER (INDIA) PVT. LTD.

The formative years The formative years –– a few questionsa few questions

• What level of imprinting your beliefs alongwith your own societies’ views should behanded down to your own children?

• Do we believe that this is a critical investmentin a child’s well being as they grow and matureto handle societies’ challenges from a groupperspective.

The next few questionsThe next few questions

• Are we as parents conscious of this or are we still unconsciously influenced and get carried away by our traditional value systems?– Fanaticism because of sectarianism– Aggressiveness and reactive attitude because of

regional influences– Competitiveness because of materialism (baby

boomers)

What kind of education are we What kind of education are we looking forward to, for our children?looking forward to, for our children?

• Are we conscious or even aware?• Even if we are, are we proactive?• Do schools and colleges rise to the occasion?

– Prioritise education or business?– If education, then confine to mainstream conventional

subjects?– Principles of universal (business) values [Rushworth

Kidder – Camden, Maine, USA] that rise above caste, community, creed, religion and nationality

Universal EthicsUniversal Ethics

• love• truth• fairness• freedom• unity• tolerance• responsibility• respect for life

This is what schools/colleges need toreinforce and rise above traditionalvalues that negate harmony!

...And this is the beginning of RoadSafety awareness !!

How to ensure such an education 1How to ensure such an education 1

• Start mobilising opinion– Have conventions and conferences in different regions

through educational institutions• Publicise through media• Have government dignitaries from the education sector to

participate– Have events organised such as assessment of risks on

highways and display how rudimentary values help inareas not exposed to road safety through schoolchildren and college students

• Gather attention through media• Have Road Transport , Highway Authority representatives to

participate

How to ensure such an education 2How to ensure such an education 2

• Move the parliamentarians and legislators– Invite them to all road safety events– Build rapport with them to convince the need– Invite media attention

• Demand Road Safety legislation as part of mandatory education in Schools and Colleges.– Categorise the education to be imparted at

different levels so that repeats are not done but reinforcement becomes robust

Values of HEValues of HE

• Self discipline

• Compassion

• Perceptiveness

ReferencesReferences

• Values, Education and Human Rights: Challenges and suggestions – Dipankar Biswas

• Indian mythology and ‘Garbh Sanskar’ –indianchild.com

• Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Modernization, Culture Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence, NY: Cambridge university Press, 2005

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