Limited functional abilities

Simply for means of survival, traditional skills are transmitted from generation to generation, often as soon as a child can walk; for example, a three year old may be started into a future of ropemaking. However, the doubling of human inventions during the past decade has created a gap between the common sense previously adequate for practical productivity and the functional living skills now required for effective social participation. Although local communities may need and wish to profit from modern technology, without the functional skills to provide them with the practical means, people have no way to develop their community in harmony with the rest of the world. Even the limited formal and technical training available competes with time which needs to be used for production, making it virtually impossible to explore and tap other communities' operations and specialized resources.

Such experience provides no means of imagining practical alternatives to the proven inadequacy of traditional methods, leading to undirected fears of inevitable catastrophe: livestock will perish, crops will fail, drought will hit, sons will not be born to relieve the burden of marginal subsistence. The minority who have received formal academic training soon discover that it does not relate to the real needs for operational knowledge in water resource development, agricultural techniques, health care methods, leadership facility or industrial variation. Indeed, because academic skills appear unmarketable in the village context, those few who do develop them eventually move away.

1. The gap between the needs of productive industry in present-day society and the training available to provide practical expertise produces unemployment and impedes development. The value of education goes largely unrecognized in many rural communities and community responsibilities are misunderstood or unacknowledged. The residents require mechanical or construction skills, yet lack trained teachers, youth advisors, guidance methods and equipment. Ventures into business are inhibited by the lack of management and marketing skills.

1. Limits to societal learning
2. Lack of ability

1. Untrained sewing skills
2. Undomesticated men
3. Underdeveloped technological skill
4. Outmoded functional skills in rural communities
5. Limited reading ability
6. Limited gardening experience
7. Limited consumer knowledge
8. Lack of method in training
9. Ineffective scheduling ability
10. Incompetent household management
11. Inadequate education of girls
12. Inadequate education of boys
13. Inadequate budgeting practices
14. Ignorance of health and hygiene
15. Functional illiteracy

1. Unused animal resources
2. Unknown conservation systems
3. Undeveloped business skills in urban areas
4. Underdeveloped farming skills
5. Obsolete methods
6. Limited poultry knowledge
7. Lagging training in social skills
8. Inadequate marketing knowledge
9. Defensive life stance

1. Unvalued indigenous resources
2. Unsupplemented school curriculum
3. Unrecognized relevance of education
4. Unavailability of topographical data
5. Seasonally limited opportunities for training
6. Limited job market
7. Limited availability of education in rural areas
8. Lack of sharing of community skills
9. Lack of family life education
10. Ineffective mixed age levels
11. Ineffective functional training
12. Inadequate teacher training
13. Inadequate preschool education
14. Inadequate husbandry training
15. Haphazard transmission of practical technology
16. Elimination of traditional skills

1. Teaching fundamental skills
2. Providing sufficient emphasis on life skills
3. Limiting functional abilities
4. Learning fundamental skills
5. Building practical skills development
6. Abstaining from development of life skills

1. Unlearned
2. Overemphasis
3. Nonrecognition
4. Limitedness
5. Life
6. Lack
7. Functionality
8. Disability