Learning Diary - Aldona Kleiviene - VALED

The question whether education has/is a value can clearly be affirmed. Since certain time everybody is talkingabout “added value”, usually linked to the term “tax”. Value-based adult education encourages everybody to thinkabout the added value of life.Workshop 5 (Romania)Conclusions: value has a strong personal reference; value is also related to interest; value change in time;values tend to influence attitudes and behaviour. Talking about values and observing them from all the fields theyoperate, values brings us only benefits and let us see to which extend these values are important to us and how theycan influence our life.Workshop 6 (Turkey)Turkish partners as a conclusion presented seven Advices of Mevlana (Religious Values): 1. In generosity andhelping others, be like a river. 2. In compassion and grace be like the sun. 3. In concealing others’ faults be like thenight. 4. In anger and fury be like dead. 5. In modesty and humility be like the earth 6. In tolerance be like the sea.7. Either exist as you as you are or be as you look.On Saturday, the 16 th June, the participants got to know the project “Weltethos” (global ethic) when discussing thequestion of globality.All the time spent with the project partners we had a wonderful time being together and talking to each other aboutus and our experience.After workshops the participants visited Samogitian Village Museum, on Saturday in the afternoon all projectpartners went to Palanga where they spent the time discussing about the values they found in Lithuania andenjoying the sea, also walking in pinewood.Oursides we thank all the partners coming to Telsiai for their friendship, tolerance and moral backing.Aldona Kleiviene,Telsiai Education Centre