Indian Education Repository

Education and National Development: Report of the Education Commission 1964-66 (Kothari Commission Report)

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)

1966

The report deals with the general aspects of qualitative improvement in elementary education with recommendations such as the development of a national policy; provision of free and compulsory education for children aged 6-14; 10+2+3 pattern of education system; teacher education; adopting a three-language formula at state levels which includes the promotion of a language of the Southern States in Hindi speaking states and vice versa; learning by doing science; social and national integration through a common school system; social and national service and making work experience an essential component of education.