The document outlines the system approach, which involves identifying goals, relevant processes and methods to achieve those goals, building a theoretical foundation, determining interactions between components, specifying necessary controls, and considering the whole system. It then discusses how the system approach brings a scientific method to solving educational administrative problems and is a systematic way of designing an effective and economical educational system by regarding education as a system. Finally, it categorizes systems as natural, man-made, or combinations of natural and man-made.

1. System Approach

2.  Identifying and stating the goals to be achieved
 Identifying the processes, methods, techniques and strategies that
may be most relevant to achieving the predetermined goals
 Building up theoretical foundation justifying the relevance of these
processes to achieving the goals
 Determining specific interactions visualized existing among various
other components of inputs
 Specifying the various kinds of controls needed in the total system
at different points; and
 Keeping the whole in mind all the time while preparing the model or
the system

3.  This new technology has influenced the educational administration
and organisation to a great extent. This is the modern approach.
 It acts as a link between hardware and software approach. It is also
known as ‘Management Technology’. It has brought to educational
management a scientific approach for solving educational
administrative problems.

4.  It is essentially a new management approach, influencing
management decisions in business, industry and education.
Education is regard as a system and system approach is a systematic
way of designing an effective and economical educational system.
 System is defined in the dictionary as “an assemblage of objects
united by some form of regular interaction or inter-dependence; as
organic or organised whole as the solar system or a new telegraph
system”. System may be divided into three broad categories.

5.  There are natural systems as solar system; there are systems
which have been designed by man as telegraph system and lastly,
there are systems which are combinations of natural and man-
made systems like hydro-electric plants or modern dairies.