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Society gives rise to various agencies of formal and informal education during its course of development. In India, as we have seen earlier in the previous chapter education has a long history. It is an interesting fact that the traditional mode of education exists here along with the modern forms of education even today. However the changes in

121 social life have altered many educational agencies and some of them have disappeared altogether. A study of informal agency in Sanskrit education has to consider these matters. The informal agencies of education consists of family, work place, community, religion and state etc. In the past, in addition to these, occasions of social gatherings like religious rites, festivals, were sources of informal education. A person knew about the world outside through pilgrimage, trade, market, migration and so on. All these agencies are relevant even in this modern age though the roles they play have been changing when we consider their educational importance. It has been already stated that there is no clear cut dividing line in classifying educational agencies into formal, non-formal and informal agencies. Even a school can take the form of a Non-formal agency of education when it organizes adult education classes and programmes. Students in the school acquire a good deal of education through informal contacts with the peers and the teachers. The press, radio and the television are normally termed as informal agencies of education. When they take up occasional programmes of formal education, they assume the form of non-formal agencies of education. The entire programs of correspondence /distance/open education may be classified both formal as well as non-formal depending upon the

122 type and mode of educational activity. Recreational programme of an adult school may be placed under the category of informal education and therefore this comes under the category of informal agency of education. With the increasing use of new educational technology and instructions. through the electronic media, it has become very difficult to divide educational agencies into formal and informal. However the family, community, religious ceremonies, social gatherings, and newspapers, radio, and television are some of the important informal agencies of education today.