Formal Education

Formal education involves planning, teaching, evaluation, and supervision with certain preset aims and objectives.

Formal Education in School

Informal Education

Informal education refers to various forms of alternative education given outside of a standard school setting such as Unschooling or Homeschooling etc. This education may be gathered from the environment where someone lives, play, work, and grow by the attempts of parents and elders in the family and community.

Informal Education through Awareness Rally

Non-formal Education

Non-formal education is one of the recent concepts for making education a life-long affair rather than confined into formal setup.

Etymological meaning of education

Etymologically, the term ‘Siksha’ has come from the Sanskrit term ‘Shash’ which means to discipline, to control, to order, to direct, to rule, etc. It is also derived from Sanskrit term ‘Vidya’ which means to know. it is acquisition of knowledge, experiences and skills.

"Sa Vidya Ya Vimuktaye"

Thoughts of Gandhi Ji on Education

Rejection of the colonial system of education was one of the important features of Gandhi as an educational reformer. He put forward an alternative. Gandhi’s critique of colonial education was part of his criticism of western civilization.

M.K. Gandhi

Man versus Machine

For Gandhi, man represented mankind and the machine was a representation of the industrialized west. The core of Gandhi’s recommendations was the introduction of productive handicrafts as a compulsory component. The curriculum of basic education favoured the child belonging to the lowest strata of society and hence his basic education program implied social transformation.

Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Education

Vivekananda said that education is the manifestation of the perfection already in Man. It is the discovery of the inner self. It is a life building assimilation of ideas.

Swami Vivekananda

Aims

• The ultimate aim of education is man making.
• Education should aim at character development and formation of personality through hard work, good habits, spiritual and moral values, etc.
• Education should help an individual in self realization.
• Education should help in self confidence and thus increase the self esteem, self respect and self reliance of an individual.
• He supported the idea of Swadharma in education.
• Education promote universal brotherhood.