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LEARNING WHILE DOING - THE NATURAL SYSTEM There is a school in Pabal, our village, where a new course called Rural Technology is being offered to students from the 8th-10th std. This is a novel course in two respects, what it gets done through students, and also what it can do to the village. This year a group of girls from the 10th std. built a 6 KVA-welding transformer. When it was completed, they invited the Headmaster and the girls did some welding job in his presence, using their own machine. The Headmaster narrated this proudly to other Headmasters of vocational schools visiting Pabal, especially to see this programme. Earlier, another batch of girls did the blood grouping of about 60 students of the school. The boys built and erected double and single bars in the school grounds. Last year, two groups of boys built two WC blocks for the school, at a total cost of about Rs. 2,500 each. These included porcelain WC pans, cement brick walls, cement sheet roof, septic tank etc. The girls built a water tank and did the plumbing. If these projects surprise you, read what other kinds of jobs they have done earlier. A batch of girls, from an earlier year built a cement slide, and also fabricated a steel seesaw and merry-go Rural Development Through Education System 62
