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Unit 3: Need for Guidance with Reference to India

(iv) Political Change and Extension of Democracy: There is a revolution of democratization of Notes
political system throughtout the world. The education has been made child-centered. The
provision of professions and promotions has also been made equal for all human beings.
Hence all people need the help of guidence service for the right choice of education and
occupation.

What is stagnation?

Self Assessment
2. Fill in the blanks :
(i) The majority of students in our colleges and universities are the ..................... learners.
(ii) ..................... job applicants have no relevance to the job specifications according to Employers.
(iii) In India average pass percentage at the graduate and post graduate level is about ........... .
(iv) ..................... are required for the gifted, backward, handicapped and delinquent children.

3.3 Summary

• Guidance and counseling services are becoming more and more important as the society and
its various institutions are growing in complexity. The society and all its institutions are built
of individuals as their units as a mansion is built of bricks.
• The following are the kanor reasons for the need of guidance.

(i) The total development of the student: Intellectual development though the teaching of subjects
along cannot lead to the total development of the students. There has to be a basic and
fundamental change in the entire system of education, which recognizes that a person remains
a barbarian unless he knows something about himself no matter how well a human being is
educated in chemistry, physics, economics, history or literature.
(ii) Proper choice of courses: Everyone knows that our educational system has grown haphazard.
While humanities and the liberal arts are subjecs most frequently offered and taken, both in
the colleges and the universities they were the oldest and relatively inexpensive areas of
knowledge, taken because they require no specified intellectual equipment.
(iii) Vocational development: The process of vocational development covers almost the entire span
of life of an individual.
(iv) Minimising the mismatching between education and employment and help in the efficient use of
manpower: The hiatus between education and employment has rarely been as wide and so
disturbing as it is today.
(v) Motivating the youth for self-employment: Considering the magnitude of educated job-seekers
flowing into the job market in India every year, a sizable fraction of enterprising youth
should be initiated into careers of self-employment.
(vi) Helping freshers to establish proper identity: In India the young men and women entering colleges
and universities are comparatively young in years. They are passing through a stage between
childhood and adulthood, between the morality learned as a child and the ethics to be
developed by the adult.
(vii) Identifying and motivating the students from weaker sections of society: Students from weaker
sections of society have their own problems and needs.

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