"A Quarter of our learning comes from our Teachers,
Own intellect and talent provides a Quarter.
A Quarter from the peers and friends and
Remaining comes only with Time."
This age old wisdom and the contribution of research on human learning in this century indicates that
important role of learning, rather than Teaching, on acquisition of Knowledge.
Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna said, "as long as I live, so long do I learn". Each and every time we take a step
we learn, knowingly or unknowingly. For example, when we go to a vegetable vendor to buy potatoes,
we observe, we select, we negotiate, we learn about various Qualities of potatoes, we learn about
weighing, we learn accounting and we also to learn socialise. So, that is the amount of learning which
takes place with a simple reality like buying vegetables. You can very well imagine the amount of
learning which may take place with lot of activities throughout the day.
Here is the importance of open learning system and the emphasis is on National Institute of Open
Schooling which is essentially on learning and learning largely by the students themselves.
Learning system is different in National Institute of Open Schooling from the conventional formal
schooling system. Here primary responsibility of learning is with the students. They are the leader of
learning situation. The emphasis is on self-learning providing self-instructional material instead of text
books.
The National Institute of Open Schooling is a new paradigm with some elements of shift such as:-
From classroom to anywhere.
From Teacher centric to learner centric.
From Teacher as an instructor to teacher as a facilitator.
From fixed time to anytime learning.
From "you learn what we offer" to "we offer what you want to learn".
From education as one time activity to education as life long activity.
NIOS concerns for "Education to All", which includes:
a) To provide education to those who are unable to attend formal schools for a variety of socio-
economic reasons as well as to those who for similar reasons missed opportunities to complete
school education.
b) To meet the educational needs of differently abled children.
c) To provide wider choice of educational programmes to teachers.
d) To provide a "safety net" to school drop outs so that they do not remain under educated.
Now let us join hands to fulfill the objective: 'Education to all.'
Dr. A.K.Jasu
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