Post-independence Efforts to Reform Educational System!
Since the attainment of freedom a definite trend towards reformation of educational system is discernible. From Lime lo Lime committees have been appointed to probe into the defects and suggest means for improvement. The Mudaliar Report on Secondary Education (1952) stressed the need of training Indians in the democratic way of life.
The Report read out “Citizenship in a democracy is a very exacting and challenging responsibility for which every citizen has to be carefully trained. II involves many intellectual, social and moral qualities which cannot be expected to grow of their own accord. In any kind of regimented social order, the individual does not need to indulge in the travail of independent thinking.
But in a democracy-if it is anything more than the thoughtless exercise of the vote—an individual must form his own independent judgment on .all kinds of complicated social, economic and political issues and lo a large extent decides his own course of action.” Similarly, the Radhakrishnan Report on University Education emphasized that the purpose of education was to provide a coherent picture of the universe and an integrated way of life.
On the basis of these Reports some reforms were introduced in the educational system of the country, for example, the introduction of Higher Secondary scheme along with Three Year Degree Course and the opening of more and more vocational and technical schools and colleges.
The Education Commission which was set up by the Government of India in July 1964, submitted its report in June 1966. The commission reviewed the existing system of education, primary, secondary, university and technical, in all its aspects. In the main, the Commission stressed that Indian education needs a drastic reconstruction, almost a revolution.
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