Year: 2016 | Month: June and December | Volume 2 | Issue 2

Primary Education and Economic Development

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Abstract:

Development is a purposeful change in a society that contributes to social and economic well being and advancement of its people without creating any disharmony. Development includes the fulfilment of each person’s material, spiritual and societal needs. It is a dynamic process. However development cannot take place by itself. It requires an educated, skilled and competent people. Education becomes the most important factor for development as well as for empowering people. Education provides people with knowledge and information which in turn bring about desirable changes in the way of people think, feel and act. Education also builds in people a strong sense of self-esteem, self-confidence. Therefore education is considered as a social instrument for developing human resources and for human capital formation. The Indian constitution enshrines in the directive principle of state policy compulsory primary education to all citizens. Primary education signifies the foremost and most basic education which lays the foundations for the subsequent level of education, and at the same time which at least makes a person literate and endowed with some basic knowledge of the world considered essential for his/her decent living. It is a socio economic need of a country. It is the pillar of a country by which one country can develop human resource base and man power in a modern society. Level of development can be judged in terms of extent of literacy rate. In India, shortfall in pupil enrolment and retention, especially in rural areas, in urban slums and among girls and members of scheduled castes and tribes remains a severe challenge for a long time. Our feeling is that not only the quantity but also the quality of primary education need to be emphasised if the goal is to create meaningful and capable human resources in this age of neo-liberal globalisation.

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