Analysis Of The Prophet By Khalil Gibran

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I. Introduction Khalil Gibran’s book “The Prophet” is a book that talks about human life. It deals with situations that a person can’t hardly get through. It gives inspiration and understanding on all human activities and needs, such as children, giving, love, marriage, and many other things that concerns people. As of today, most of all the students don’t give much attention on values courses which is in fact can help them mentally in dealing on their major courses. This research aims to explain how values courses are being set aside and why Khalil Gibran 's book "The Prophet” can help ignite the interest of the students towards values education. The researchers sought to answer these questions as we plan to conduct the research: • Why does Khalil Gibran’s book, “The Prophet” be used as a mode to teach values in college? • What makes the book effective in imposing such values? • How can “The Prophet” contribute to values formation? • Who is Khalil Gibran and what made him write “The Prophet”? • In what subjects in college can “The Prophet” be taught? II. College Students will always find themselves choosing which courses to take. Some of these courses are courses made not for the advancement of the program, but for the enrichment of values. College students frequently do their schedules and fix their time tables without restrictions but due to the mentality that they need to focus on their majors, they set aside and disregard the importance of values