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Education February 1929

1929

Mackenzie himself that the experiment has been a success that there is no substance in the criticism one hears now and then that there has been a deterioration of standards or that there has been a falling off in the quality of the men turned out by the intermediate colleges in comparison with the calibre of those who passed when the institutions were a part of the Allahabad University. [...] Very well if this is the position now when a certain number of young men are going to school and college what will be the position and where shall we find ourselves landed in if a vastly larger number of young men are to go to the same schools and the same colleges and the same_universities and receive the same kind of education and apply for the same kind of employment as is the case at present [...] The idea is ingrained in the mind of the middle class parent and this son that the only respectable occupation is quill-driving or ventriloquial exercise such as teachers and pleaders and public speakers engage in and that any occu-pation which Inay add to the wealth of the country is of inferior description.- If this idea cannot be dislodged if not from the mind of the parent at least from th [...] If the young man who goes to an industrial or technical school or a school or college of agriculture goes there with the object of finding employment in the Indutries department or in the Agriculture department of the Government if it is only change of direction but not a change of the objective if service is still to be the dominant motive and not the doing of some work with one's. own hands [...] (An address delivered at the last Bombay Presidency Teachers' Conference.) The epoch-making Report of the London Board of Education known as The Education of the Adolescent' defines the aim of education as—' the forming and strengthening of character the training of tastes to fill and dignify leisure and the awakening and guiding of intelligence.' You will notice that the forming and strengtheni
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Segment Pages Author Actions
Inaugural Address
53-70 C.Y. Chintamani view
Chamcter Traiaiiig at Home and in the School
71-75 H.R. Hamley view
Children in China and Japan
76-79 Walter Buchler view
The Apostrophe
79-80 R.W. Page view
Correction of Exercises
80-84 Ram Lal view
The intellectually Middle Class—a Problem
84-86 Jack Philips view
Play-for-All(in J.A.S. High School Khurja)
86-88 D.D. Mathur view
How to Die Next Year
89-90 unknown view
The Thirteen-Month Year
90-91 Walter Higcins view
Reviews
92-95 unknown view
Editorial Notes
96-100 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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