Teaching is service. Nowhere is this service made more profoundly professional than when Values Education was institutionalized in the Philippine Educational system. At Silliman University, Values Education is values integration, a curricular design that extends from the classroom to the community. Through a core curriculum that provides a cluster of courses within the general education program anchored on the university’s mission, Silliman University has responded to that call. However, how a student evolves into a social being who is self-actualized with a deep sense of love of country and the world, is the ultimate affirmation of what a university can do to contribute to shaping human excellence — the education of the mind for academic excellence, the education of emotions for human values, and the education of the conscience for life’s principles of harmonious living.
