Illiteracy of the general
mass is one of the major ills from which our country suffers in common with
other backward countries. It has been recognized as the birth right of every
individual in a free sate. Mass ignorance defeats all attempts of progress and
darkens the future of the nation. The sooner illiteracy is removed the better
it will be for the individual and the community at large.
The schools we have at
present are for children whose age ranges from 6 to 16. The syllabuses and the
curriculum followed in these institutes are cast into a certain pattern and
designed to prepare boys and girls for higher academic education in of whom are
grown up men and women. Therefore, a new set of schools have to be introduced
for giving education to these people. These may be called schools for adults.
We have to keep within view
certain facts regarding these education centers. Our population being very
large, the number of these schools will have to be proportionately
considerable-at least one in each locality of three or four villages. The adult
education canters cannot aspire to have grand schools buildings. These schools
will aim at imparting some elementary enlightenment along with a little better
knowledge of the vocation the learners pursue. As most adults are busy earning
their bread in the daytime, it will be convenient for them to attend schools if
classes taken at night.
In this country only a small
minority of the children get the opportunity of attending schools regularly.
Number of schools in the village’s fall of what it should be. The existing
schools are in such a deplorable condition that they beggar description. So a
staggering number of school-going children stand in need of some facilities for
rudimentary education. To that end compulsory and free primary schools should
be started to accommodate these neglected future citizens of the country.
Mass literacy should never be
confined to the three R`s. It must also aim at making the learners useful and
capable of applying the new acquisition to the earning of their bread. Efforts
should, therefore, be so planned and equipped as to be able to impart a large
variety of vocational trainings. Thousands of our illiterate people are
unemployed because they have neither any land to cultivate nor any finished
knowledge of the arts and crafts. If such people can be taught various
handicrafts, such as weaving, carpentry pottery, smother, caning as also
trained in the handling of small machinery, their unemployment problem will be
considerably solved. Over and above, mass education centers should take special
care to impart knowledge of scientific agriculture, of health and sanitation
and also give the learners some sort of civic training so as to make them fit
for good citizenship.
To make the programmer of
mass literacy successful, it is, therefore, essential to keep in view the
question of removing the current appalling poverty of the masses.
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