Primary education aims to transmit aspects of human experience to the as yet uninitiated, and so involves an introduction to modes of behaviour which certainly include modes of thinking and feeling relevant to our common life. Although many impressive achievements have been made in Primary education since independence but a closer analysis reveals that situation is still gloomy and very far from satisfactory. More than half of our population is still illiterate. ...
Education is the most critical input into the entire processes of social, economic, political and cultural transformations. The underlying problems of planning our education service are profound . How far can the need to evaluate such a costly enterprise be reconciled with its essential freedom? How can we reconcile democracy with efficiency? How realistic is planning when applied to education? Within the education system, what should be the priority according to ...