Teaching A Quarterly Technical Journal for Teachers June 1936

Recognizing that the family and the village are pivotal in the 1 1 civic life of the Indian the author starts with the village in his explan1 A tion of the rights privileges and duties of the Indian citizen and passes Iby stages to the present governmental machinery and that of its prI I mised successor the Federal Government A map of Federal India is included. [...] I IThe Presentation of Subject The Arrangement of Ideas I The Simplicity of Thought The Choice of Topics and The Fineness of Get-Up have earned for us the Co-operation of the 8 Teaching Public. [...] An inquiry into the mind of the Indian intelligentsia is bound to show that its present chaotic condition is the result of first the present commercialized system of education carried on in a foreign language and secondly the persistence with which the Indian intelligentsia apes all the imitable features (which are as a rule the worst) of the English intelligentsia. [...] The peasants and workers in India are perhaps the poorest in the world and in that lies the strength of the appeal of Iqbal's recent poetry—Bal-i-Jabriel—more than in his direct appeal to the Muslim ideology of complete equality and classlessness. [...] But perhaps by the time the pupil has become aware of certain of the beauties of the poem the whole process of looking for beauty may have become stereotyped and mechanical and in that case a separate step of fixation consisting of the detection of further beauties in the poem would be unnecesary.