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Children have everything to learn. This should be their main preoccupation in order to prepare themselves for a useful and productive life. Education means three things, to teach how to observe and know rightly the facts on which they have to form a judgement; secondly , to train the children to think fruitfully and soundly; thirdly, to fit the children to use their knowledge and their thought effectively for their own and the common good. Capacity of observation and knowledge, capacity of intelligence and judgement, capacity of action and high character are required for the citizenship of a rational order of society; a general deficiency in any of these is sure source of failure. As the children grow up, they must discover in themselves the thing of things which interest them most and which they are capable of doing well. There are latent faculties to be developed. There are also faculties to be discovered. Children must be taught to like to overcome difficulties, and also that this g...

Supervised Instruction: Traditional approaches to supervision of instruction may have emphasized the following techniques: the supervisor studying the lesson plan developed by the teacher prior to observing actual teaching. the supervisor becoming knowledgeable about the capacity, achievement, and home background of students to be observed in actual teaching-learning situations. the supervisor having a meeting with the teacher following the observational visit. the teacher and supervisor developing basic agreement as to ways of improving the quality of teaching. In the new method, the supervisor basically would follow the following procedure prior to and during the time an observational visit is made to the class settings: i. the supervisor would first of all study the objectives of the teacher. These objectives may be revised through the co-operative efforts of the teacher and supervisor. ii. The supervisor would then observe actual teaching going on. iii. Following ...

Career Education:- A rather recent innovation in education is career education. Selected educators have felt that students graduating from the schools have not received adequate information on career opportunities. Further, it is felt that the school students, upon graduation, have not been prepared for selecting a career when entering the labour market. Individuals too frequently have drifted into a career rather than selecting a vocation which is satisfying to the individual. As students progress through the school years, they are to achieve relevant objectives pertaining to understanding, skills, and attitudes in career education. A variety of leraning experiences, such as using films, filmstrips, slides, reading materials, resources personnel, and excursions, among others, should aid learners in understanding diverse careers. Work experience for high school students definitely is important in programmes of career education. Questions that can be asked about programmes in career ed...

Educational technology includes all educational resources --- men and materials, methods and techniques, means and media in an integrated and systematic manner to optimize learning. Learning not teaching is the crucial task of the educational process. Technology is one component in this process and can help make learning easy and interesting. A large number of schools have gone headlong into computer education --- not really computer-based education --- and usually what this means is learning how to use a computer for different tasks, including mathematical operations (statistics, spreadsheets, geometric modeling) and desktop publishing (bringing out a class magazine or making posters). Computer-based education, on the other hand, implies the use of computers as a means to educate. Lessons are designed using the capacities of the computer to stimulate, organize information, and present materials that are visual, auditory and text-based, all within the same frame. Such computer-based ...

When one is hungry it is useless to talk about education. When the parents are economically poor, they find it difficult to send their children for education. In this situation, what is required to attract the students, is to give food to the children and if possible, to the parents, so that the basic need is fulfilled. Once the school provides regular meals, the children and the parents find it easier to attend the system. In a system like this, a dedicated lot of educationists are required. It is found, sometimes, these educational institutions follow certain policies and theories with certain “ism”, and try to inculcate those to the children. As it is found and observed, education is delivered best when it is neutral and only factual. The right to form opinion is to be given to the learners. We, as educationists, should lead the students to the steps with a hope the students would climb the proper ladder during their life.

Teaching is to educate the children and to mould the young minds to right direction. Art is a good method in this regard. One doesn’t have to go to expensive art schools for this. Any teacher with some sense of art and aesthetics can do wonderful work in this. Art is another form which attracts the young minds. They like to explore the nature, take them to the nearby locations, where modern gadgets are not available. Teach them to draw the nature, or whatever they feel happy with in that condition, may be a little bird or a butterfly. After the trip ask them to explain what they like most, and discuss each “good experience” in front of everybody. They will enjoy when everybody’s experience is narrated. While explaining or narrating , teach, as usual, as a teacher, the unknown to the young minds. They will enjoy and keep talking about the nature and how good you were as a teacher to every known person. In this, as a teacher, you would get your best appreciation.

Orthodox religious beliefs hamper proper growth and flow of correct knowledge of education. Children studying in these types of educational institutions get distorted views on facts and figures of events, and consequently base their thoughts on those distorted facts and figures, which are basically one sided. An educationists job is to give correct picture of events, more like a good journalist without siding any particular theory. After giving proper facts from the available source, the educationist should leave it to the students to make an opinion. The good teacher should not brainwash the students mind and help the students to form their own opinion, based on the correct available facts. Like a journalist, a poor teacher can either harm the society with a wrong picture of the facts with even wrong opinion. A good teacher can , on the other hand help the society and the learners, by projecting a correct and balanced opinion and facts. In other words, religious fanaticism can be chec...

For the children staying on streets in the poor countries, one can start school system to impart basic knowledge at times suitable to the children and their families. In this we encounter objections from the parents as the children are also their source of income. There is a ban on child labour by the world health organization as well as world labour organization. But these are only agencies to pass some directions, which actually are to be implemented by the families and parents from the poorer sections of the society, which they do not implement for their own economic reason. The local governments also find it difficult to follow the direction, as mostly they do not have any genuine concern, and above all this aspect is never their priority. The meetings and seminars against child labour takes place, usually with a bang in big hotel auditoriums, with non governmental organizations. The need is not to host meetings or seminars, but to educate the families and their children the import...

In the present age, almost everyone is hoping for a change in the system in which a school functions. Education should be such that it meets everyone’s needs. Students, these days, are especially fed up with the education they are receiving. Education consists of three things, where the first is, to teach to observe and know the basic facts that would enable the students in forming judgements; secondly, to train children to think fruitfully and soundly; thirdly, to teach children to use their knowledge and their thought effectively for their own, as well as the common good. When students feel good about where they are, they tend to be more relaxed, creative and open to learning new things. Comfortable desks and appealing classrooms would help improve learning, while a student lounge, large auditorium and cafeteria would aid towards an ideal school. Curriculum and equipment are the major factors that should be considered when creating an ideal school. Unfortunately, most schools today l...

Even if school education is made free, it has been seen that admission and attendance rate are less where social and economic poverty exists. To attract and encourage children to attend free school system various agencies , including government departments should join hands together to achieve the target. Unfortunately, most of the agencies look for short term measures as they usually do not look beyond a time limit of five years. The fruit of a concerted effort would yield its results not before atleast eighteen years, which most of them forget, or do not like to think, as their goals are not far reaching. An honest effort may not yield result in our life time, but would make this world a better place to live, even after our departure, and make the present generation to reap its fruit.

To eliminate social poverty, school education should be made free for the economically backward children. To attract these children and their parents for the betterment of society people should come forward with knowledge and money, so that children in all countries needing assistance to improve their condition, atleast when they grow up and to catch up the modern world, get proper encouragement and platform.