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Indian Education

1910

The satisfactory features of the new movement for secondary eduction are : First the increased desire on the part of an immense number of parents to prolong the school life of their children ; secondly the hearty recognition of the claim of girls to improved educational opportunties ; thirdly the influence exerted by the Government inspectors in securing improvements in the intellectual w [...] Thus we find the aristocrat of the Greeks the orator of the Romans the monk of the monastic rule the scholar of the scholasticism and the gentleman of even Milton and Locke and so on But what a strange thing it appars to be that almost all of these people—I should have omitted `almost' but for a Pestalozzi and Froebel —framed no educational theory whatsoever for the common run of mankind suc [...] " To complain of the age we live in to murmur at the present possesors of power to lament the past to conceive extravagant hopes of the future are " remarks Burke "the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. [...] The teaching of the symbols as well as the teaching of the ideas along with the realization of the same on the part of the learners are indispensable for the proper study of a foreign language. [...] We have seen in brief that the present system of imparting instruction in our high schools through the medium of English is not only disadvantageous to the interests of the students but it is indirect and unnatural and it entails a greot amount of waste of time and energy on the part of the teachers and the taught.
education
Pages
59
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
193-200 unknown view
Education in England
200-204 M.E Sadler view
Handwork Vs. Headwork
204-207 S.G.S Mavyam view
The Ethics of the School room
208-210 K.L. Oza view
A Plea for the Indian Vernaculars
211-212 C.G Shah view
The Subject System and the Class System : A Comparison
213-214 R.D Karve view
The Director of Public Instruction's Report Bombay for 1908-09—ii
214-218 Scrutator view
The News of the Month
219-227 unknown view
Reviews of Books
228-230 unknown view
Books Received
230-231 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
232-234 unknown view
Government Notifications
235-240 unknown view
Editorial Notice
240-240 unknown view

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