Rajasthan State Open School (RSOS), Jaipur

राजस्थान स्टेट ओपन स्कूल, जयपुर Rajasthan State Open School of the State of the same name in India was mainly founded in 2005.[1] The main reason for establishing this is to educate the poor student r establishing this is to educate the poor students, in which the student can choose the subjects according to his choice [2] RSOS includes students mainly in the secondary and upper secondary classes. It takes a few days of classes in which the student has taught the selected subjects.[3] This open board is recognized by various institutions across the country. Its chart can be used in railway, army, higher studies. Rajasthani language was added to in the past years. This board conducts examinations twice a year, it can include students of any age. The Rajasthan State Open School was set up in 2005 by the Government of Rajasthan as an autonomous organization under the Rajasthan Institute Registration Act 1958. It provides educational opportunities to persons who wish to study further and qualify for a better tomorrow. The mission of RSOS is to provide school education to all with special concern for girls and women, rural youth, working men and women, SC & ST, differently abled persons, and other disadvantaged persons who because of one or other reasons could not continue their education with the formal system. The RSOS, a registered society, offers courses through a distance and open learning system and prepares students for secondary and senior secondary examinations. The RSOS conducts examinations up to class XII in collaboration with other agencies like the National Institutes of Open Schooling (NIOS). Life is a school and experience is its teacher. Education is a consciously controlled dynamic continuous process. Man learns something or the other from birth to death. Learning positive things is education. Education teaches life behaviour and prepares us for the struggle of life. In fact, education is that which gives us eyes (insight) and wings (ability) which are useful for life and livelihood. It is also worth mentioning here that education is not just literacy and information is not knowledge and being deprived of school is not being deprived of education. School is not the only means of acquiring education. The great educationist Ivan Illich has even said that my mother wanted to educate me, so she did not send me to school. This does not mean that school organizations are meaningless but it means that apart from school, learning is also being done informally. Only school literacy remains a skill whereas social literacy becomes education. Formal and informal education are interrelated. Informal education received in the society develops the natural ability of a person to create his own knowledge. Learning becomes enjoyable and easy. While in formal education one learns through the Guru, in informal education one learns through one's own efforts like Eklavya. Mahatma Buddha has said, "App Deepo Bhava" i.e. be your own light. Swami Vivekananda has said that teaching children and growing plants are the same thing. Plants grow from nature. We can only help them grow. The very fact that we teach children creates all the confusion. We should only provide those resources to children so that they can teach themselves by using their hands, feet and ears etc. properly with their intelligence. Our country's former Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru said in the conference of education ministers on 10 November, 1963, "I am completely convinced that universal education should be our first priority. Everything else, whether it is industry, agriculture or anything else that is important for us, will develop properly only when there is education on a wide scale in the background." There is only a need to create an environment for education, education will automatically create the environment for the rest of the things. ...view more