Human beings are fully social beings who live and coexist in a diverse environment, composed of a diversity of individuals who think, act, and reflect based on a series of values. In a democratic and participatory society like ours, the paramount values are freedom, coexistence, respect, tolerance, and the defense of one’s own rights. We therefore delve into a very complex framework, in which value is understood as a referential framework for judgment and as a guiding pattern for the life of the person belonging to the subject’s sphere of knowledge, and which includes the concept of what is desirable. Therefore, we affirm that values are what define our interests, our concerns, and how we interact with others, which is why values in the educational field are fundamental for successful teaching.
For the learning of these values, the family and the school are the most responsible agents, as this is the environment that surrounds us most as human beings. For this reason, the family and education must, in a coordinated manner, provide children with the acquisition of habits that they will eventually rationalize, a series of behavioral models based on:
• Biological values: basic needs such as food, health, etc.
• Intellectual values: give rise to the cultural origin of children
• Ecological values: care, respect, and appreciation for the environment in which life develops.
• Moral values: respect, tolerance, solidarity, and truth, which are the fundamental pillars of emotional relationships with the world and with others.
• Religious values: are specific to believers and their orientation is heavily influenced by the family.
Educating through values implies a methodological decision, not one of content, as children will learn them by example and will be able to incorporate them into all activities and areas in the future to achieve full integration into social life.
