Bureau of Education India. Occasional Reports. Biligualism

CALCUTTA : GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CENTRAL PUBLICATION BRANCH 192611 The Conference desires to recognize the desirability of scientific investigation of the facts of bilingualism with re ference to the intellectual emotional and moral development of the child and the importance of the questions of practical educational method arising out of the investigation of such facts." Imperial Education Conf [...] 1. The Nature and Origins of the Problem of Bilinguaism 13 2. The History of the Policy of Bilingualism in Bengal 20 3. Bilingualism and National Culturb 34 4. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism in the Educational System of Bengal 07 5. An Analysis of the Bengali's need of English 91 PART II.—EXPERIMENT. [...] The educationist has the choice of the language of the pupil or the language of the knowledge to be imparted; and whichever he chooses in leaving the other he is bound to be wrong. [...] 21 School an idea enunciated by the Court of Directors of the East India Company to the Governor General in Council of Bengal.' But the Training School alone would not solve the problem; the Directors realised that the education of the masses requires the existence of an educated class as a foutain-head of culture. [...] At the same time a conciliatory series of resolutions was adopted by the Committee postponing the appointment of Secretaries for the purpose of reorganising the Sanskrit Colleges and permitting the completion of the printing of Fatawn Alam Lord Auckland who succeeded Lord William Bentinck as published a Resolution reviewing the situation guaranteeing the maintenance of oriental instittions