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Report of the Bombay Presidency High Schools Head Masters’ and Teachers’ Conference. Fifth Session at Bombay (1928)

1928

In accordance with the recommendtions of the Hunter Commission of 1882 to secure the coopertion of the vast army of secondary teachers in the cause and development of secondary education on active and interested lines the Government or rather the Director of Public Instrution Bombay held in 1883-84 conferences of teachers which were according to the Government reports grand succes [...] The other factors that added to the weight and eminence of the session were the outstanding personalities of the President of the Conference and the Chairman of the Reception Committee. [...] 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 excesive 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 p [...] The education of children in the aims and objects of the League of Nations a knowledge of physiology and of personal and social hygiene a knowledge of civics are some of the latest suggested additions to the compusory subjects. [...] The Department of Public Instruction on the other hand was very conservative and often in ignorance of the material which was published from week to week and in a spirit of suspicion of all new publications used to object to the use of the text-books.
education
Pages
148
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144591
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
A Brief Account
1-8 unknown view
Opening of the Educational Exhibition
9-10 unknown view
Welcome to the Delegates
11-18 K.B. Marzban view
Bombay Presidency Secondary Teachers’ Conference
19-29 unknown view
Resolutions Passed at the Conference
30-36 unknown view
Character Training in Home and School
37-43 H.R. Hamley view
Defects of Speech and Suggestions to remove them
43-53 B.V. Dalal view
Neglect of the Mother Tongue and Unemployment
53-65 V.R. Gupte view
The Play-Spirit in School Work
65-76 L.R. Desai view
The Misbehaved Boy
76-86 Anjilvel Matthew view
Why do Mathematical Studies Suffer ?
86-94 G.M. Joshi view
The Status of a Secondary Teacher
94-102 M.V. Kale view
Sex Education
103-115 B.P. Kolhapure view
Teaching of Drawing
116-119 S.P. Bhide view
Institutions which Sent in Contribution
i-xvi unknown view

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