+1 class Explain the present educational system is by and large out of tune with the times.we need an efficient system of education?
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-FRIENDLY SCHOOLS MANUAL
Schooling is the one experience that
most children worldwide have in
common and the most common
means by which societies prepare
their young for the future. On any
given day, more than a billion children
are in primary or secondary school:
689 million in primary school and
513 million in secondary school.
They are in permanent or temporary
buildings, in tents or under trees –
sharing the experience of learning,
developing their potential and
enriching their lives. But schooling is
not always a positive experience for
children. It can mean shivering in cold,
unheated buildings or sweltering in hot,
airless ones. It can mean being forced
to stand in unfurnished classrooms,
being hungry, thirsty or unwell; it can
also mean being frightened by the
threat of punishment, humiliation,
bullying or even violence at the hands
of teachers and fellow pupils.
These conditions thwart learning.
They are made worse when learners
are without competent teachers to
guide them, textbooks to learn from
or exercise books to write in, or if
they have textbooks of inferior quality
that reinforce damaging stereotypes.
Learning is further stymied when
schools have no toilets, running water
or electricity. It is a challenge to reach
the 101 million primary-school-age children around the world who do
not attend school. But it is perhaps
even more daunting to rectify the
deplorable conditions endured by
millions of children already in school,
conditions that are antithetical to
learning, children’s well-being and
their future livelihood.
And children face negative conditions
not only in school. The home and
community environment can also
pose challenges that make it diffi cult
for children to enrol in school,
attend regularly, complete the fi nal
year of the cycle or achieve the
prescribed level of learning. Food
and water insecurity, undernutrition,
parasitic infestations, unhygienic
surroundings, chronic poverty,
household chores, harmful traditional
beliefs and practices, domestic
overcrowding, gender discrimination,
HIV and AIDS, domestic violence,
childcare defi ciencies and the
increasing prevalence and severity
of natural disasters related to climate
change are factors that can wreak
havoc with a child’s right to attend
and complete school. Schools
must therefore focus on the whole
child, which means taking into
account conditions in the family or
community that might be hindering
his or her educational progress.
Fulfi lling the education-related
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) requires not just getting all
children into school, but making
sure that all schools work in the best
interest of the children entrusted
to them. This means providing
safe and protective schools
that are adequately staffed with
trained teachers, equipped with
adequate resources and graced with
appropriate conditions for learning.
Recognizing that different children
face different circumstances and have
different needs, such schools build
on the assets that children bring from
their homes and communities and
also compensate for shortcomings
in the home and community
environment. They enable children
to achieve, at a minimum, the
knowledge and skills prescribed
in the curriculum. They also help
them develop the ability to think
and reason, build self-respect and
respect for others, and reach their full
potential as individuals, members of
their communities and citizens of the
world. Child-friendly schools (CFS)
embrace a multidimensional concept
of quality and address the total needs
of the child as a learner.