QUALITY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION: IDEAS AND INITIATIVES

Primary education is the first stage of formal education. The main aim of quality education in primary school is to inculcate basic knowledge about reading, writing and arithmetic of the children. It is expected that after the successful completion of the primary school education, a pupil should be able to read, write and solve simple arithmetic problems. For quality improvement, we have to re-think about the ideas and initiatives of primary education which have very crucial motivating effects on the students. Teaching-learning environment and quality of education are so unsatisfactory particularly in government controlled primary schools that teachers of those schools themselves prefer to arrange education for their children in a better run school in private sector. Due to the economic factor they have to enroll their children in government run primary schools where quality is very poor. The elite and rich groups of the society or village enroll their children in private schools where quality is presumed to be far better than the government schools. So, the clients of these public schools are the poorest of the poor, economically and socially down people. So the children belonging the marginal group are deprived from good quality education and as a result they can hardly climb ladder of development.