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CHAPTER EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN THEl970's

The success of education depends not on what is superficially studied but on what is actually learned. In this learning process, teaching skills and techniques are as important as the content and level of education offered.

It is very important, therefore to make the best use of teaching techniques, which can be adapted to individual abilities and interests at each school level in order to ensure the attainment of our educational objectives. To this end all proper measures should be studied further, with particular attention being paid to the following:

(l) Creating flexible class management by employing techniques such as instruction by grouping, etc. in order to provide effective education, which will both conform to educational objectives and prove suitable for individual pupils'.

(2) Creating opportunities for individual study so that students can pursue there

studies in a rational manner and in a fashion suited to their own characteristics.

(3) Establishing a flexible system within which simultaneous guidance may be

given to students of different grades as this may be more effective than giving

guidance to students of one grade at a time.

(4) Allowing the exceptional step of early advancement to higher education for certain mature students in the senior grades.