Excessive student-teacher ratio

Many of the problems concerning children are made worse by the high ratio of children to teachers in understaffed schools.

In American and western Europe, for example, a common ratio is 30 children to 1 teacher. It is generally recognized that a satisfactory ratio is no more than 10 children to 1 teacher, but this is affordable only by private or special schools, where parents pay fees.

1. Overcrowding in schools
2. Inadequate working conditions of teachers
3. Debilitating education images

1. Unfruitful communication between student and teacher
2. Parent-teacher non-communication
3. Inadequate results of formal schooling
4. Disruptive behaviour in schools
5. Children neglected by teachers

1. Shortage of trained teachers
2. Maldistribution of teachers

1. Improving teacher/student ratio

1. Understaffed
2. Overstaffing
3. Inappropriateness
4. Excess