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Ram-Eesh Manjari 2024-2025 177Institute of Education%u00e8 Involvement children in interactive games. %u00e8 Celebrating current good practices to encourage students to develop value based education.%u00e8 Providing real life illustrations.%u00e8 Understanding psychology of students.%u00e8 Discussion by the whole class after the lesson stimulus.%u00e8 Involvement of parents and guardians making the task of the teachers easier.%u00e8 Encouragement to students to develop a sense of belongingness with the teacher so that the teacher student relationship is established.ConclusionThus, education should be a means for getting in touch with innate values like peace, happiness and truth so that studets become strong, balanced and constructive citizens. When we start educating in this way, we can begin to hope for a better future.References:Dieterich Carole (2024) \for Success\'Factories of education' are causing devaluation of human resources, says CJI N V Ramana\TimesPathaniaKulwant Singh &PathakAnuradha D (2010), Imbibing Values among Students, Edutracks Vol. 9 No. 8, Neelkamalpiblications, pp. 23-25.\ and Its Impact on Quality in Teacher Education in India\Research, pp 1026-1030.Dr. Sangeeta GuptaH.O.D. (RIE)TEACHING SECULARISM IN CLASSROOMS: IMPERATIVE NEED FOR COMMUNAL HARMONY AND WORLD PEACEEducation is considered the most important tool for the development of human resources and democratic values. In a democracy 'Secularism or Dharma nirpekshita', which is the soul of our constitution is the main support that maintains the country's democratic ethics. Secularism upholds democratic principles by ensuring equal rights and freedom of religion. People belonging to different culture and religions, share a common platform to understand each other's cultural and religious beliefs, which in turn fosters the feeling of mutual trust, understanding, and brotherhood.Today we see an immense feeling of mistrust, hatred, intolerance, and the growing disparities between genders, rich and poor and the upsurge of terrorism. especially in our youth. The degradation in human values and threat to secularism are serious concerns for all of us. We may observe desirable changes in our youth by not only teaching secularism through moral values in all schools and colleges, but also inculcating these values by giving some special training to every teacher and conducting various cultural and religious programs to develop the feeling of mutual trust, love, care and respect to all communities and religions for communal harmony and peace.Education in building a secular societyEducation plays a crucial role in building a secular society by promoting critical thinking, tolerance, understanding of diverse perspectives, and a value system that respects all religions and beliefs, essentially fostering an inclusive environment where people from different backgrounds can coexist harmoniously. This is achieved through curriculum design, teacher training, and fostering open dialogue within classrooms. Highlighting how schools can serve as crucial platforms to educate students about the principles of secularism, where they learn to respect different faiths without endorsing any one religion as superior can be understood by following points: