Educational India July 1937

In the case of denominational schools like the mission schools of the Christians the Anjuman schools of the Muslims or the Gurkuls of the Arya Samajists or in some other schools run by private bodies such as the Aryan Education Society of Bombay relgious instruction does form a part of the regular teaching in schools. [...] Apart from the question of the desirability or otherwise of teaching Bible the Koran or the Bhagawageeta to the students of other religious sect it cannot be disputed that these periods devoted to religious teaching as such afford opportunities to talk of morals in the classes and in that way can be said to' be producing salutary effects on the young minds of the pupils and whatever are the [...] But if the nation is to progress as a whole this nation of the relative superiority and inferiority of different occupations—an idea so alien to our conception of the true individual Dharma— has to be laid to rest and the low standard of life of the bulk of the population has steadily to be pulled up even if it involves some inconvenience to the maintenance of the bloated standards of the lucky [...] A careful analysis of the existing position particularly of the relationship between the strength of elementary school standards and the increase in literacy of the population reveal however the fact that while it is satisfactor' that there has been a very large increase in the enrolment of elementary schools the large in creases have not resulted in anything like a pre portionate increase in d [...] The setting up of these pre-university classes involves the lengthening of the high school course by one year and Government consider that this can best be achieved by abolishing the existing intermediate classes in the universities adding the junior intermediate class as the final year of the pre-university high school course and adding the senior intermediate class as the first year of a three-