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Addresses Delivered at The Mysore University Convocations 1918-1929

1930

A University thus consttutes the visible manifestation of the activities of the State in the domain of the highest grades of education for the benefit of the people. [...] I trust some gifted historian of education will narrate the romantic story of 'the usurpation of the academic territory by the wise schoolmen of the Middle Ages their displacement by the learned professors of the Humanities the unwecome intrusion of the iconoclastic devotees of theADDRESS BY SIR ASUTOSH MOOKERJEE 15 physical and natural sciences on the scene and the entry almost in our own [...] That time is long past when the duty of the Government of a country was supposed to consist mainly in keeping peace and order an idea which was born of the times when the people were deemed to exist for the Government and not the Government for the people and *Then Government was regarded as an outside force and not an organization of the will and resources of the people for the advancment of [...] While the inculcation of useful knowledge and the training of intellect must always be kept in view at every distinct stage of the educational course the building up of a strong character the cultivation of the finer sympathies and imagination and of noble aspirations must be regarded as ark essential function of every sound system of liberal education. [...] But one fatal defect of character from which the people have suffered and which has been the chief source of the country's weakness and misery is the want of power of organization and of the faculty of co-operation.
education
Pages
408
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144129
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vii C. Rao view
First Convocation: 19th October 1918
1-ii C. Rao view
Second Convocation: 1oth October 1919
31-ii C. Rao view
Third Convocation: 1sh Novembar 1920
41-i C. Rao view
Fourth Convocation:14th Octobar 1921
61-i C. Rao view
Fifth Convocation: 4th Octobar 1922
103-127 C. Rao view
Sixth Convocation: 24th October 1923
128-155 C. Rao view
Seventh Convocation: 29th October 1924
156-209 C. Rao view
Eighth Convocation : 14th Septemoer 1925
210-231 C. Rao view
Ninth Convocation: 27th November 1926
232-ii C. Rao view
Tenth Convocation: 3rd November 1927
263-i C. Rao view
Eleventh Convocation : 23rd August 1928
289-329 C. Rao view
Twelfth Convocation: 24th August 1929
330-i C. Rao view
Index
345-351 C. Rao view
Backmatter
i-i C. Rao view

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