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3. The community paying for these services on cost plus basis. 4. Using the surplus as an incentive to staff and students. 1. Multi-skill training Multi-skill training not only broadens the horizon of experiences of the growing child, but also gives it the capability to act. It acquires some commonly required skills so that it can concretize its ideas by solving its own problems. The child becomes a handyman. Also the rural problems, and often all problems at the ground level need a multidisciplinary approach to understand and think of a solution. Thus, it is always a generalist who refers the given case to a specialist for a solution. The multi-skill training programme also reduces the cost of education, because, at any given time, the batch of students is working with different pieces of equipment in different sections. This reduces the number of equipment required to give hands-on experience to all students. For the same reason, the school equipment has greater utilization. Also being trained in a variety of jobs, the school is better equipped to meet its own requirements for equipment as also services. The school can therefore be better equipped by its own efforts. 2. Using the Acquired skills in real life This is done by giving services to the community. The provision of services not only brings realism to education, but also links education to rural life and the community. It establishes relevance, gives ample opportunities for interaction of the staff and students with the community. It encourages them to understand the needs of the community and use their skills for meeting these. This is development at the base level. It also gives confidence to the student to later start on his own if he wishes. This step is necessary to encourage both invention and enterprise. Everyone is not inclined to Rural Development Through Education System 39
