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Indian Education

1903

What are we aiming at as a nation ? What is the national purpose what is the national ideal for the fulfilment of which we desire that the rising generation should be educated ? What is our conception of the duties the aims the powers of a modern state 1 And as we rightly believe that education is somthing far deeper than mere book-learning and that it is the outcome of the influence of so [...] The same tendency to recognise the need for a number of different aims and for diversity of practice in the sphere of Univesity organisation is noticeable in the important discussion which has arisen out of the practical needs of the Rhodes scholars at Oxford and has been further stimulated by the conference of representatives of Allied Colonial Universities and by the address delivered by Si [...] In India though the useful instrument comes every day more and more into favour there is still room for improvement and it may not be out of place to give a few of the reasons in favour of the employment of the typwriter as well as to sketch the possibilities of its use in our European schools as a means to a livelihood for the pupils. [...] Each key represents a letter (modified in some cases by the shift-key arrangement) and to press clown the key produces a corresponding reaction of the mechanism of the typewriter which results in the production of the letter represented. [...] McGurrin has the following : " To thoroughly memorise the key-board of the machine so that I could copy without raising my eyes from the notes I utilise all the fingers of each hand and the thumb of the right hand for spacing." The inventor of the Yost Machine wrote : " Those who possess the necessary suppleness in the third and fourth fingers should employ them.
education
Pages
109
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
169-171 unknown view
Education In England
171-178 Michael Sadler view
Typewriting as a Subject of Instruction In European Schools
178-186 A. E. Duchesne view
Science Teaching in Schools
186-189 J. N. F. view
The Art of Punctuation
189-190 unknown view
Public Instruction in the Punjab 1901-02
190-192 unknown view
Two Points in the Teaching of Botany
193-194 K. R. Kirtikar view
The News of the Month
194-207 unknown view
Geographical Notes
207-209 W. H. Wood view
Science Notes
209-211 W. Jesse view
Reviews of Books
211-216 unknown view
Books Received
216-217 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
217-219 unknown view
Government Notifications
219-224 unknown view
Prize Competition
224-224 unknown view
Backmatter
i-xxxx unknown view

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