Karnataka School Education Minister B.C. Nagesh, chairman of Karnataka Knowledge Commission K. Kasturirangan, and Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, along with heads of various educational institutions in the State, at the Round Table Meeting in Bengaluru on Monday. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Value education should be an activity-based teaching module, and teachers should be trained in value education first, said many prominent religious leaders and educationists who participated in a consultative round table meeting on ‘Implementation of Value Education in School Education’ conducted by the Department of School Education and Literacy on Monday. The meeting saw leaders from Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jain, and other religions participate. Vishwaprasanna Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt, Udupi, spoke about the need for activity-based value education: “Earlier, Panchatantra stories were taught to the children as part of value education. Now we should adopt value education through small dramas and students should play parts and characters. Telling the stories through cartoon is another way to teach value education effectively to the students,” he said. Shivamurthy …