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Indian Education

1911

There need be no reference to Euclid or to the Law of Gravity but all the useful problems may be demonstrated in measurements of the school building or on the work in land ''pleasure correctly keep your tools sharp cut to the mark should be the constant reminder of the teacher for they refer to the prevailing faults of the Indian craftsman. [...] It may be defined as an educational method of instruction necessitating the use of the hands and while cultivating a certain amount of manual dexterity and training the eye to a sense of accuracy and form will at the same time allow the pupil an opportunity of utilizing his natural activities of expressing his ideas in tangible form and of sharpening the intellect by developing the motor cent [...] In educational handwork the worker is to be first considered It is in the doing rather than the work done; the disciplinary training the pupil receives while manipulating the various instruments or tools employed in the construction of the models is where the true educational value lies. [...] The uneducated 2-.re delighted with the play of Fancy when they hear that Kama raised the earth ; that Rtivana had as many as ten mouths; that the attendants of Rama bears and monkeys had the power of speech ; that Sugriva and Vali were born of the semens of the Sun and Indra fallen on the neck and hair of a female monkey ; that a slab of stone floated on the deep ; that a mass of rock was cha [...] From the time when the schcol became a specialising institution the gulf has gradually widened between it and the world so that the schoolboy and even the teacher know little of the world and the world less of the school.
education
Pages
58
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
433-436 unknown view
Education in England
437-439 M, E. Sadler view
Technical Education
439-441 John Wallace view
Manual Training in Travancore
442-444 H, W. Green view
Indian Psychology in a Nutshell—I
445-449 J. R. Tullu view
An Appeal on Behalf of European Education in India
449-450 unknown view
An Employment Bureau for Educated Men
450-451 E. Gilbert view
The Press Note on Secondary Education
452-453 Scrutator view
English Books for Indian Boys
454-455 unknown view
Black-Boards
456-456 unknown view
Art for Schools—XIV
456-458 unknown view
Picture Post Cards for Schools—III
459-460 unknown view
Volcanoes
460-461 unknown view
Flies
461-462 W. R. Macdonald view
Correspondence
463-463 unknown view
The News of the Month
463-468 unknown view
Reviews of Books
468-470 unknown view
Books Received
471-471 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
471-475 unknown view
Government Notifications
476-480 unknown view
Editorial Notice
480-480 unknown view

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