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The Collegian & Progress of India - a Fortnightly Journal of Indian Educational Progress in all its Branch No. 1 January 1915

1915

In this connection we would mention that the end of the Medical Course in France on the average finds a young man at the age of 23; in Great Britain at the age of 23 in Germany at the age of 23 in Switzerland at the age of 23. [...] The result is that dome of the gifted students may rise above the trammels of this rigid and unprofitable system but the vast majrity succumb slowly to the slavery of the text-books and the fetish of the examiation. [...] Jr is certainly encouraging to find the Times (London) to assert that Indian education has come to he absolutely dominated and paralysed by artificial examinations and narrow text books which test the memory but not the intelligence of the students and which control even the teachers by depriing them of all independence and initiative." The root of the evil lies in the constitution of the [...] In another place the same paper adds that the whole tendency of the Indian University is "to sterlize the mind of the pupil to kill intelletual curiosity to destroy the critical faculty and to ensalve the intellect to the letter of the printed word." This description of the Indian University is only too true ; and the wonder is that we should still find oppostion from any quarter to ef [...] The interest of the investigation lies not in the random preparation of one or more compounds but in the suggestion itself and in the systematic working out of the subject.
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Occasional Notes
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The Universities
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The Colleges and Schools
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Technical Education
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Education Abroad
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