The document summarizes the key aspects of the Secondary Education Commission of 1952-1953 in India. The commission was chaired by Dr. A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar and aimed to examine problems in secondary education and its relationship to primary and higher education. Its major recommendations included defining the aims of secondary education as producing ideal citizens, developing skills for earning a livelihood, fostering leadership qualities, and cultivating human virtues. It also recommended making secondary education last 7 years, using the local language as the medium of instruction, introducing English/Hindi later, including various subjects in the curriculum, modernizing textbooks, offering vocational courses, reducing examinations, and establishing a Board of Secondary Education.

2. Secondary Education
Commission 1952 – 1953
Dhanya Lakshmi
II nd year
Government College of Teacher Education

3. Secondary Education
Commission
 Under the
Chairmanship of Dr.
A. Lakshmanaswami
Mudaliar
 Vice-Chancellor of
the Madras
University.

4. Aims
 To enquire into the problems of
Secondary Education
 Organization & content of secondary
education and its relationship to Primary &
Higher Education

5. Recommendations
The Commission has defined the aims of
secondary education in the following manner:
1. To Produce Ideal Citizens
2. To Develop Capacity for Earning Money
3. Quality of Leadership
4. To Develop Human Virtues

6. Major
Recommendations

7. Characteristics of Secondary
Education Commission
1. The duration should be 7 years (Children
between 11 to 17) It should begin after 5
years of primary education.

8. Characteristics
2 The mother tongue or regional language
should be the medium of instruction
through out secondary stage.
3 English or Hindi should be introduced at
the end of junior basic stage

9. Characteristics
4. All the middle school stage, the
curriculum should include Languages,
Social Studies, General Science,
Mathematics. Arts and Music, Craft and
Physical Education.

10. Characteristics
5. The existing text books should be
modernized.
6. Steps should be taken to open
multipurpose schools to provide vocational
courses

11. Characteristics
7. The teaching should be made more
purposeful and realistic by reducing
verbalism.
8. The number of external examinations
should be reduced.

12. Characteristics
9. uniform system for the selection and
appointment of teachers

13. Characteristics
10. There should be a Board of Secondary
Education - 25 members with Director of
Education/Chairman – to deal with all
matters of education at the secondary.

14. General Recommendations
1. It laid foundation for the process of
vocationalization of education in India.
2. The guidance and counseling
programme in schools.

15. Merits
• Activity based education.
• Stress on agricultural education.
• Discussion of aims of secondary
education.
• Child-centered education.

16. Demerits
• No new statement regarding the
improvement of social and economic
conditions of teachers.
• No suggestions regarding women
education.
• Over stress on English.

17. Thank you 