Professor K.G. Saiyadain has summed up the features of basic education in the following way:
(i) It attempts to adjust the growing child to its environment and to exploit its recourses for educative purposes.
(ii) It is an “activity curriculum.”
(iii) It stresses the principle of co-ordination and correlation.
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(iv) In drawing up the syllabus in each subject, it seeks to organize the essential subject matter into a number of significant and comprehensive units.
(v) It gives to crafts its overdue but essential place in the curriculum and attempts to provide coordinated training of the hand and the mind.