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Indian Education

1910

And yet if the one be steadfastly regarded through a reversed telescope and the other placed beneath the warm indelicate scrutiny of the microscope the positions are reversed and the observer led to speak of you mere elephant as unworthy of mention in the same breath with the landscape-filling flea. [...] It enforces a great and wise step in the right direction and will hasten the day when none will sit for the Matriculation Examination save the few who intend to proceed to a d6gree It is probably the death-blow of the monster which has done more harm to boys and teachers than can ever be told and the first application of the lever which will raise the cruel incubus which has hitherto crushed th [...] If the Education Department could get the right examiners for the School Final Examination the finest reform conceivable would be the llowing of text-books in the examination-room What teacher would follow the thorny fatal path of cram to fill the child's head with useless miserable facts if the boy were quite at liberty to bring them all with him to the examination in a text-book ? If the boy [...] The plan rests on four principles: First the recognition of denominational effort in national education side by side with the undeakings of the local authorities Secondly the abandonment on the part of the Church of England and other religious bodies of any monopoly in the control of a public elementary school to which on account of the sparsity of population no alternative school can pr [...] They would point to the old system of education in India and to the triumphs it achieved in those ancient times The basis of education should be religion which strengthens and directs the mind in the proper channel They are of opinion that the scepticism resulting from the present system of education has led to that confusion which is to be seen in all branches of social life.
education
Pages
57
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
49-53 L. Robertson view
Education in England
54-60 M.E. Sadler view
The Teaching of Paraphrase
60-62 T.S. Sastri view
The Problem of Education
62-66 G.C. Dike view
First Notions of Number
66-68 D.H. Vachha view
Notes of a Lesson on Geometry
68-71 Shiv Dayal view
The Director of Public Instruction’s Report Bombay for 1908-1909-ii
72-76 Scrutator view
The News of the Month
76-87 unknown view
Reviews of Books
87-90 unknown view
Books Received
90-91 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
92-95 unknown view
Government Notifications
95-96 unknown view
Editorial Notice
96-96 unknown view

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