VALUES AND EDUCATION

Abstract

This study will discuss the relationship between education and values. Education has been value-based since it was first implemented, because education means that a person teaches the assumed values and tries to accept them. However, under the influence of positivism, values were excluded from schooling on the grounds that they were relative. It has been argued that the relativity of values is incompatible with the universality of education. Those who support this point of view are called positivist, relativistic and indifferent tendencies. However, today the postmodern understanding of education argues that it must be adopted through the teaching of values in school education. If values are not accepted through education, today’s humanity will not be able to overcome its problems. The solution to these problems is associated with the understanding and acceptance of values by people.