Educational opportunities are provided in various forms all
thought life from infancy to old age in homes, schools and society. Schools,
however, is the main educational institutions witch provide these opportunities
systematically and with definite objectives. Therefore, the quantitative extent
to which people are provided with opportunities for school and other formal education,
i.e., enrollment in these formal institutions, will give us a rough picture of
the extent of educational expansion in our country. This chapter aims at elucidating
the present quantitative expansion of schools and other formal education in comparison
with the past and with some other major countries.