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Indian Education

1903

For us Indian students there are rich means of such well written histories—the Tarikh-i-Kashmiri the Tarikh-i-Dakan (which adds much to the history of Deccan as narrated by Ferishta) the Mirat-i-Sikandari (which illustrates three centuries of the history of Gujerat) portions of the Ayneen-i-Akbari the pages of Abulfazal an d the Siydi-ul-Mutakharin which is a valuable commentary on the early [...] Moreover the magnitude of sclome of the Persian books (mostly of the histories) and the very different values of their parts would recommend the practice—as would also a desire to spare the purse of students. [...] As a result of the establishment of the Register of Teachers the ranks of the Secondary Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses are being drawn into a new relation to the State. [...] On the Continent no one would dream of adapting Statics to the meagre information supplied by the first four books of Euclid and of offering the students such a mutilated treatise as that contained in our high-school manuals; no one would think it worth the while to speak of the centre of gravity to pupils who are not able to find the centre of gravity of the most common regular bodies; no one wou [...] It will of course be impossible for the children to do much actual measurement of the village the taluk the district but there are always the results of the survey of the village accountant the cadastral surveys of larger areas and the various government survey maps to be had.
education
Pages
96
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120008
Segment Pages Author Actions
Editorial Notes
365-368 unknown view
The Study of Persian in the Bombay Presidency
368-373 J.K. Koyaji view
Education in England
373-377 Oxoniensis view
The Position of Euclid
377-380 unknown view
The Teaching of Geography
381-387 Method view
Public Instruction in Bombay 1901-1902
387-389 F.G. Selby view
The News of the Month
390-402 unknown view
Geographical Notes
403-406 William Jesse view
Reviews of Books
406-411 unknown view
Our Contemporaries
411-417 unknown view
Prize Competition
417-418 unknown view
Government Notifications
418-420 unknown view
Backmatter
i-xxxii unknown view

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