Advantages of Non-Formal Education: Importance, Benefits, and Social Impact

To sum up, Non-formal education provided the following advantages:

1.     Universalization of primary education.

2.     Eradication of adult illiteracy.

3.     Meeting the omissions of formal education.

4.     Meeting the massive and imperative challenges of a democratic set-up.

5.     Qualifying the pupils to learn and earn money.

6.     Enabling those students who had to stop formal education owing to financial and other circumstances.

7.     Enabling students in geographically remote areas to get an education because formal education cannot be within their easy reach.

8.     Qualifying individuals to refresh and bring up-to-date knowledge.

9.     Rectifying the educational imbalance between rural and urban people.

10. Providing educational services to socially and economically ignored segments of society.

 

References: Sociology of Education by S.S. Chandra & R. K. Sharma