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Indian Education

1910

Ranade grasped the fact that the knowledge the youth of India needs is knowledge of processes knowledge of how to do and to make economic and industrial knowledge (after the school-training of faculties) and not knowledge of the wordy Essays of departed talkers or a smattering of the dead (and deadly) languages. [...] The training of the infant is almost wholly by suggestion To a less but yet to a very important extent the same method is operative CM the older child-- the example of his associates in the family or out of it is more potent in the formation of his character and habits than are all the precepts that are dinned into him. [...] This is amittedly a drawback and is too patent to be denied.—But the writer in blaming the system forgets that the aim and end of teaching a language is not merely the acquisition of ease in speaking it but primarily of such a knowledge of the language and literature of a country as would enable the student to utilise and extend the same in any desired direction. [...] At the Matriculation it is not impossible to scrape through with the help of the grammar alone without glancing at the passage for translation ; and in the higher examinations it is even easier to do so with the book-work and the " annotate with reference to the context" quetions which between them carry away more than half the number of full marks The value a degree is principally in the h [...] In English Schools on the other hand there is a tendency on the part of both the teacher and the taught to despise the Vernacular in their over-estimation of English ; and the real help which the subject renders to them in learning the latter is denied to them by themselves.
education
Pages
56
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
97-101 unknown view
Education in England
101-105 M.E. Sadler view
Ancient Hindu Mathematical Methods-VII
105-107 G. R. Kaye view
Collegiate Education
107-109 P. C. P. Aiyangar view
Schools and Anarchy
110-111 K. V. Sane view
The Value of Suggestion in Education
111-115 Bernard Hollander view
The Teaching of French
116-118 J. S. Kharsedjee view
The Teaching of Hindi Grammar and Composition
118-123 K. P. Guru view
Discipline
124-126 Surendra Sen view
The News of the Month
126-134 unknown view
Reviews of Books
135-136 unknown view
Books Received
137-137 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
137-142 unknown view
Government Notifications
143-144 S. S. Nadkarni view
Editorial Notice
144-144 unknown view

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