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Teaching A Quarterly Technical Journal for Teachers June 1933

1933

The following is the key table showing the distribution of age figures in various classes and even a superficial look reveals the wide difference in ages that exists even in the pupils of the same class. [...] The table at the head of the next page shows the coefficient of variation of age in the various classes and if we accept the statistician's assumption of regarding all coefficients of ten and above as suggesting a significant variety we find that in all the classes there is a distinct heterogeneity so far as age is concerned. [...] Their need [the need of the Bengalis and this may be taken to refer to the Indians in general] is not English to speak nor to write; but English to read in order that they may enter that vast repertory of knowledge which is contained in the richest of all languages.' Secondly the success of education has to be judged not by the knowledge gained at school by a pupil but by the ability with whi [...] The complexities of modern social life the increasing demands on the time and leisure of business men and the insistent appeal of the theory of division of labour and specialized effort and skill have conspired to make out a case for a proper definition of clear aims and the differentition of courses. [...] Palmer says in The Bulletin of the Institute for Research in English Teaching published in Japan: 'It is the possession of the language as speech (or in other terms being able to think in the language") that enables us to write our mother-tongue without making what are called "foreigners' mistakes ". The language as speech is the key to rapid reading and accurate and natural writing.
education
Pages
68
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120033
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-4 unknown view
The Problem of Age-Distribution in Schools
145-157 S.C. Kapoor view
Dr. West and the Teachers’ College Dacca
157-160 Gurubandhu Bhattacharyya view
Dr. West’s New Method
160-165 A.S. Venkataraman view
Teachers’ Conferences
165-169 J. Haworth view
The Problem of Backward Boys in Schools
169-173 G.A. Chandavarkar view
Ideal Education. II
173-183 F.G. Pearce view
Vidya Bhavan
183-189 Nandipati Mookerjea view
Correspondence
189-190 G.N. Singhal view
Reviews
190-192 unknown view
Backmatter
5-ii unknown view

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