A three-day workshop over alternative education system was held at the Sanchi University from November 18 to 20. The workshop discussed the existing education system and various ideas over the alternative education system at Barla campus in the Sanchi Bodh- Indian Knowledge Study University.
Various dimensions of learning, teaching and knowing were also discussed during the three-day meet.
The aspects discussed in the workshop included as to whether the present education system was proper. Can the children be educated through any system from the Indian History so that children could be taught without doing much interferenceIJ Or a new education system that could shape a good citizen, build good society with qualities of character, work-efficiency, sensitiveness and that could develop materiality of welfare of the society. Or lessons could also be taken from the experiences of such persons who never reached school, the workshop raised the questions.
Especially invited members attended the workshop of the core group focused on alternative education. The members of the core group expressed their views as to how the qualities of personality development and work efficiency could be developed in a student through the alternative education system so that the student could learn much in short period and that could also help him in the future in getting employment.
The workshop also remarked that in the traditional system a student takes sixteen years to complete school while in the alternative education system it takes only eight years to complete the course.