LEARNING BY DOING AND PLAYING
Chapter 16 LEARNING BY DOING AND PLAYING The Chapter at a Glance Failure of the contemporary education. Play-way in education. The Montessori Method. The Dramatic method. The Project method. The Dalton plan. The Heuristic method. Guiding and scouting. A comprehensive play-way plan. One of the fundamental aims of all education is the proper development of the learner's individuality. A balanced and well-planned education imparts not only factual knowledge to the learners but also seeks to promote creativity, freshness, initiative, leadership, fellow-feeling, cooperativeness and similar other traits and qualities in them which are indispensable for healthy and efficient living. Failure of the Contemporary Education Our present system of education which the Commission on National Education purports to revolutionize, fails to develop these desirable traits among the students. Our educational system is predominantly bookish. It produces book-ri