Kesarimalji Surana Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia, Dev Kothari
Publisher: Kesarimalji Surana Abhinandan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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COMMUNITY EDUCATION
IN NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
(Mrs.) KAILASH MEHTA M. A. English & Sociology (Gold medalist)
University of Udaipur;
Supervisor, Computer Programming, TORONTO (CANADA)
The quality of life is implicit in community education and it enriches it. In the modern period of rapid transformation and communication, community as a whole cannot be averse to it and it has to move with the times. Mass education is the fundamental method for socio-economic transformation of the society. The foremost task is that the nation's human potential should become more enlightened and should make better use of its available resources. In the historical context, the French Revolution of 1788 stimulated modern intellectualism and consequently a dynamic relationship was established between the intelligentsia and the common people and there by socio-economic imbalances had been reduced.
The two-thirds of Indian population is illiterate. Mass education drive is the only remedy The Government is firmly resolved to wage a clearly conceived, well-planned and relentless struggle against illiteracy, to enable the masses to play an active role in social and cultural changes. Literacy forms an integral part of an 'individual's personality. The mass approach is. likely to cover the entire nation and all segments of the population will be benefitted. A child who is a message from God should be very well looked after as a national property.
CONCEPTS & OBJECTIVES * The community' refers to a group of people living together in a region where common ways of thinking and acting make the inhabitants somewhat aware of themselves as a group.
The 'family' is the most basic educational agency in moulding the lives of boys and girls, where fundamental attitudes and habits are formed; at the same time undesirable and abnormal habits are eliminated. Individual's value structure is based on one's family upbringing. As such a child's interests and abilities are the outcome of his/her family influences, social, religious, cultura!