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Indian Education

1918

THE Report of the Director of Public Instruction for the quiquennium ending 1916-17 apart from the interest it must have for all students of the progress of India has a personal interest as a record of the last fruits of the work of two men who literally devoted their lives to the education of Indians. [...] To him in particular the teachers and the heamasters owe the increase in their rates of pay and the importance now attached to raising the status of the school teacher. [...] Thus there is a University known as the University of Vimy Ridge which publishes a University Calendar wherein the object of this field university is said to be " the promotion of civilian training." The Chancellor is the General commanding the Division who is helped in his academic duties by a Senate including the President of the University who is a professor of recognised academic standing [...] The avowed purpose of the Education Bill is to establish a national system of public education available for all persons capable of profiting thereby"„ The significance of the last phrase lies in the fact that recent enquiries by the Medical Officer of the Board of Education have shown that ability to profit by the means of public education is diminished far more by physical conditions than by me [...] A conflict will go on in the mind between the two ideas--one associated with the pleasure resulting from out-door exercise the anticipation of getting a good score to my credit a keen appetite in the evening and sound sleep at night—all moving me to accept the offer ; on the other hand the idea of sitting in the cool shade the desire to read the latest war news coupled with the sense of oblig
education
Pages
54
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
385-388 unknown view
Education in England
389-393 Frank Roscoe view
University and Social Development
393-396 A. G. Widgery view
How to Succeed in Work and Trade—(Continued)
396-398 J.N. Fraser, J. Wallace view
Decision of Character
398-404 L.S. Jha view
Notes of Lessons
404-406 Quality view
Laboratory Morals
406-408 A TEACHER view
A Students’ Co-Operative Society
408-410 V.P. Bokil view
History in the High School
410-414 N.K.V view
The School Garden at the Garud High School Dhulia
414-416 N. view
Public Instruction in Bombay 1912-13—1916-17
416-419 unknown view
The News of the Month
419-421 unknown view
Reviews of Books
421-424 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
424-426 unknown view

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