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The Indian Review December 1917. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

1917

I shall not even bring forward the evidence of any of my own countrymeit who have written the history of my time : but I can turn to the evidence put foward by the historians of France and Germany to prove that the savagery and brutality which is so characteristic of the German soldier in the present War were unknown in my Armies in the Penisula. [...] " All the business of war and indeed all the business of life is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do know " said the Duke of Wellinton to Croker and in that sentence the Iron Duke embodied the whole theory of education in so far as the latter consists in the acquisition of knowledge. [...] Yet to the Indian school-boy guided to the study of history along the correct pathi via the history of his own people the wars of the Heptarchy the early village community the coming of the Normans and the growth of Feudalism rould be much easier to understand than modern constittional and imperial growth. [...] But it is almost certain that he latter is the result not so much of a drilling Atte Classics as of the whole series of influences which the public school brings to bear on him outside the class-room in the dormitory in the study and above all in the playing-field In other words the English Public School moulds and deveTops character by other means than the mere acquisition of knowledge Now [...] Simple arithmetic the construction of a plain map or plan of the school-room and then pf the roads or fields around the school the points of the compass the polstar the rising and setting of the sun the curvature of the earth hills valleys rivers tho growth of the trees and of plants the properties of air and water the elementary laws of physiology physics and chemistry the habits
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Our Claims to Swaraj
769-771 M. K. Gamdhi view
In the Kingdom of the Shades
772-776 Fitzgerald Lee view
A Plea for a More Rational Curriculum
777-781 H.P. Farrell view
A Japanese View of European Civilization
782-783 V.B. Metta view
Reminiscences of Sir Rabindranath
783-784 T.V. Aiyar view
Indian Affairs in England
785-786 “A Friend of India” view
A Lesson from the West
787-789 Yakub Hasan view
Government Aid and India Industries
790-790 “Mercantilist” view
Indian Political Literature
791-792 “An Indian Publicist” view
A Buddhist Find
792-792 C. Jinarajadasa view
the German Empire After the War
793-798 S.G. Panandikar view
Turkey and the War
798-799 Ferrand Coriey view
Moghul Mints in Bengal
800-801 Pramathanath Datta view
The Present Position of Dietetics
801-803 A.S. Bhandarkar view
Agricultural Education in India
804-806 Kunjan Pillai view
The Jaina Law
807-808 J.L. Jaini view
A Miraculous Fish
808-ii Mahomed Noorshoy view
J.N. Tata: a Captain of Industry
809-811 G.A. Natesan view
Christmas with the Poets
812-813 S. Coleman view
Methods of School Inspection in England
813-816 P.A. Iyer view
Topics from Periodicals
817-824 G.A. Natesan view
Questions of Importance
825-825 G.A. Natesan view
Utterances of the Day
826-826 G.A. Natesan view
Feudatory India
827-827 G.A. Natesan view
Indians Outside India
828-828 G.A. Natesan view
Industrial & Commercial Section
829-829 G.A. Natesan view
Agricultural Section
830-830 G.A. Natesan view
Notices of Books
831-831 G.A. Natesan view
Diary of the Month
832-832 G.A. Natesan view
Literary
833-833 G.A. Natesan view
Education
834-834 G.A. Natesan view
Legal
835-835 G.A. Natesan view
Medical
836-836 G.A. Natesan view
Science
837-837 G.A. Natesan view
Personal
838-838 G.A. Natesan view
Political
839-839 G.A. Natesan view
General
840-840 G.A. Natesan view