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Jawans who have fought battles side-by-side form deep bonds. Growing up together is a way of forming these bonds. Working together to grow together is the dream of any well-organized company. Consider any trader who cheats. Will he succeed and prosper? Maybe when there is no alternative, he will continue to get customers. But if he has an honest trader to compete with, where will customers go? So in an open market, only those who are honest will attract customers. Why should anyone speak the truth? Is it because a religion says so? What will happen if our senses, say the eyes and the ears give us false messages? We shall stumble and get into problems all over. What if a company has many employees who give routinely false information? This company will not prosper. Thus, a nation that lives on falsehood cannot prosper. Maybe any organization can tolerate a level of untruth, but beyond that it will decline. That is why truth and honesty are needs for survival. All values are built up from the needs of human society. And anyone who works will soon find the need for these values from his own experience. Then why does a society, for example India now, feel it has gone down in values? The values of the human race are a permanent need for survival. They will temporarily fluctuate, and so will prosperity along with it. The society will soon find for itself that they have to have better values if they want to prosper as a nation. That is why-'Satyameva Jayate'. The point is, there is no value formation without feeling the need for it in the world of work. Classroom teaching will never inculcate values. It may even be counter productive, if the teacher is not a model for the values he preaches. Work environment is essential for formation of values. Stories of great men can help but it is not a substitute for testing the values in a real life work environment. How the activity effects can be multiplied If we were to depend on activity for learning everything we have to Rural Development Through Education System 104