We know that mass illiteracy is the great problem in the present word. If we can remove it, we will get many advantages in our daily life. Illiteracy means inability to read and write. Illiteracy is a curse because it is illiteracy that lowers down human being to the level of beast. Illiteracy is compared to darkness because it darkens individual's vision , outlook, behavior and in a word, all aspects of life. How to remove mass illiteracy, Some steps are given below.
Instruction
Steps 1: Illiteracy, one of the major ills ; need of literacy: Illiteracy of the general mass is one of the major ills. The necessity of giving some education to on and all cannot be disputed. 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 world. Nothing can be pleaded as an excuse for keeping race in gloomy state of semi-blindness, helplessly groping in the catacomb of ignorance, superstition and fear. The sooner illiteracy is removed the better it will be for the individual and the community at large.
Steps 2: General school cannot help; new set of school needed : The school we have at present are for children whose age ranges from six to sixteen. 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 different lines. These school can be of no practical use for mass, the vast majority 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.
Steps 3: Scope of such schools : 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 centers cannot aspire to have grand school buildings, and that is needless too. These schools will aim at imparting some elementary enlightenment along with a little better knowledge of the vocation the learners pursue. The subject-matters and also the method of teaching in adults schools will differ greatly from those of ordinary schools. As most adults are busy earning their bread in the day time, it will be convenient for them to attend schools if classes are taken at night.
Steps 4: Compulsory and free primary school : In the developing countries only a small minority of the children get the opportunity of attending schools regularly.Number of schools in villages fall far short 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.
Steps 5: What type of mass education should be given? : 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 made teach them some trade and to that end every adult education center should be so planned and equipped as to be able to impart a large variety of vocational trainings. Thousand 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, smithery, 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.
Steps 6: Arrangement of teaching ; more visual aids than theoretical lessons ; course must be short : The arrangement of imparting instruction shall be as usual course of training given free of cost.
Steps 7: Condition for the success of mass literacy drive : To make the program of mass literacy successful, it is, therefore, essential to keep in view the question of removing the current appalling poverty of the masses.
Instruction
Steps 1: Illiteracy, one of the major ills ; need of literacy: Illiteracy of the general mass is one of the major ills. The necessity of giving some education to on and all cannot be disputed. 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 world. Nothing can be pleaded as an excuse for keeping race in gloomy state of semi-blindness, helplessly groping in the catacomb of ignorance, superstition and fear. The sooner illiteracy is removed the better it will be for the individual and the community at large.
Steps 2: General school cannot help; new set of school needed : The school we have at present are for children whose age ranges from six to sixteen. 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 different lines. These school can be of no practical use for mass, the vast majority 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.
Steps 3: Scope of such schools : 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 centers cannot aspire to have grand school buildings, and that is needless too. These schools will aim at imparting some elementary enlightenment along with a little better knowledge of the vocation the learners pursue. The subject-matters and also the method of teaching in adults schools will differ greatly from those of ordinary schools. As most adults are busy earning their bread in the day time, it will be convenient for them to attend schools if classes are taken at night.
Steps 4: Compulsory and free primary school : In the developing countries only a small minority of the children get the opportunity of attending schools regularly.Number of schools in villages fall far short 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.
Steps 5: What type of mass education should be given? : 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 made teach them some trade and to that end every adult education center should be so planned and equipped as to be able to impart a large variety of vocational trainings. Thousand 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, smithery, 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.
Steps 6: Arrangement of teaching ; more visual aids than theoretical lessons ; course must be short : The arrangement of imparting instruction shall be as usual course of training given free of cost.
Steps 7: Condition for the success of mass literacy drive : To make the program 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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