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    The document discusses the tutorial system of education used by The Bhaktivedanta Academy. It begins by contrasting the Gurukula method with modern education systems, noting their different goals and structures. It then explains that the tutorial system involves students not being grouped by age and allowing them to progress at their own pace. Teachers develop personal relationships with fewer than 12 students each. This system addresses each student's individual needs in areas like handwriting, spelling, attention span, and confidence. In secondary school, the tutorial system uses a project-based structure where students focus on preferred subjects with teacher assistance. The goal is a personalized pedagogy that treats each student as an individual.

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    The document discusses the tutorial system of education used by The Bhaktivedanta Academy. It begins by contrasting the Gurukula method with modern education systems, noting their different goals and structures. It then explains that the tutorial system involves students not being grouped by age and allowing them to progress at their own pace. Teachers develop personal relationships with fewer than 12 students each. This system addresses each student's individual needs in areas like handwriting, spelling, attention span, and confidence. In secondary school, the tutorial system uses a project-based structure where students focus on preferred subjects with teacher assistance. The goal is a personalized pedagogy that treats each student as an individual.

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    The document discusses the tutorial system of education used by The Bhaktivedanta Academy. It begins by contrasting the Gurukula method with modern education systems, noting their different goals and structures. It then explains that the tutorial system involves students not being grouped by age and allowing them to progress at their own pace. Teachers develop personal relationships with fewer than 12 students each. This system addresses each student's individual needs in areas like handwriting, spelling, attention span, and confidence. In secondary school, the tutorial system uses a project-based structure where students focus on preferred subjects with teacher assistance. The goal is a personalized pedagogy that treats each student as an individual.

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    The Tutorial System of Education - 2019

    The Gurukula method, as a complete system of education, is simple and


    objective. Different from the so called modern or innovative methods.
    “Actually, at the present moment there is no education, because
    education means to understand my identity. The so called education
    which is going on, that is called art.” 1 In this regard, The Bhaktivedanta
    Academy, differs from the modern educational paradigm. Not only our
    goals and values are different, but the whole pedagogic structure: the
    curriculum, educational management, architecture, teacher-student
    relationship, etc.

    The academic classes our students have are also applied in a different
    way, as explained by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura in his book
    Amṛta Vāṇī, “One who gives personal instruction to each and everyone
    does more for others than the platform speakers do. Generally, whatever
    platform speakers say cannot solve the problems of everyone in the
    audience, nor can it always benefit every individual. A person’s defects
    are better rectified in a private tutorial class or private coaching than in
    hearing lectures in a school or college. Therefore those who instruct
    particular persons separately can award them something more
    permanent.”

    Traditionally the method of addressing the individual needs in a study


    group is called tutorial system or tutorial method, where students are not
    grouped by age, and the curriculum content is not bound to a
    yearly/semester time frame. All students advance at their own pace and
    their personal interest is taken into consideration, therefore the groups
    are designed in such a way that the teachers can develop a personal
    relationship with the students, “There should not be more than twelve
    students for one teacher. This is tutorial system.”2

    In the primary level we apply thr tutorial system in a class structure, with
    different multi-age class groups, each group sequentially covering part of
    the curriculum objectives, when the student accomplishes the objective
    for that specific subject he moves to the next group. Inside a group there
    are obviously a certain range of different levels of students and each one
    is taken care according to his own needs, some students may present
    handwriting difficulties, while others may present spelling difficulties,
    some may have difficulties in memorizing the time tables, while others
    have issues with place value. Some students may present short attention
    span, while others are so introspective or shy that they may never present
    their doubts to the teachers. In this way the tutorial system will deal with
    each individual being taken care in the areas they need.

    1
    Lecture on BG 2.17 -- (with Spanish translator) -- Mexico, February 17, 1975
    2
    Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 20 November, 1975
    In the secondary level the tutorial system is applied in a more pragmatic, project based
    structure. Students have a certain amount of lessons/tasks/projects they have to accomplish in
    order to conclude their secondary education, part of the work is mandatory and the other part
    is optional, so students can focus their learning in areas they prefer or are more inclined
    towards. In their tutorial periods they always have a group of teachers, especialized in
    different subjects, available for assisting/tutoring/teaching them individually or in groups if
    needed.

    The general basic, mandatory curriculum of the school, which all students have to go through
    goes up to the secondary level. After that they go for their tertiary education, where they are
    mentored in developing a research or practical project in a specific area of knowledge of their
    own choice, this areas are all connected to the fourteen books of Vedic knowledge.

    In this way the academic method of the school is aligned with the philosophical principles of
    Gaudya Vaishnavism, as a personalized pedagogy, where each student is seen as a person
    with his own particularities and peculiarities, not just another number in an abstract system of
    education.

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