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Education January 1929

1929

Looking over the draft resolutions for the consideration of the members of the association at this conference and the resolutions discussed at the previous conferences I am convinced that you are conscious of our needs and that you have set yourself to the task of having these needs supplied in a legitimate way. [...] You who are practical workers in the field of 'education are the best persons to judge how far the present system of education is responsible for this state of affairs and whether it is possible to adapt the courses of study to the needs of the day in a manner to enable your students to take to some trade or vocation after finishing their school career. [...] It was then that they began to have real voice in the framing of the courses and syllbuses in the selection of text-books prescribed for the Matriculation Examination and in the inspection and affiliation of schools. [...] They should accept the principle that after all the really best condition is the one in which the ideal meets the practicable To show how slow the powers that he are in responding to the opinions and views of competent educationists and educational bodies I may give you the case of the Vernacular Standard IV Examination. [...] It inflicts on children of seven or eight all the horrors of a public examination such as the uncertainty of the test the inducement to cram the excessive strain of a written examination in several subjects and the probability of wrong results due to the very large number of children to be examined and that too in an age which clamours for a reduction in the number of examinations and for a poss
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Frontmatter
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Presidential Address
1-9 J. R. Chitambar view
Welcome Address
9-15 Narsingh Prassad view
Experimental Work(in J. A. S. High School Khurja.)
16-20 L.N. Mathur view
Welcome Address
20-27 K.B. Marzban view
Uses of Teaching Drawing in High Schools
27-29 Surendra Ghosh view
The Winnetka Technique
29-31 Corrie Gordon view
Editor’s Letter Box.The Teaching of Hindi and Urdu
32-32 unknown view
Resolutions Passed at the Fourth Conference.Of All India Federatian of Teachers Associations
33-36 unknown view
Resolutions Passed at the Eighth Conference.Of U. P. Secondary Education Association
36-40 unknown view
Reviews
40-45 unknown view
Editorial Notes
45-52 unknown view

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