Educational India August 1937

It prepares the way for an interpretation of life in which the love of God is the central conception It aims at securing the abandoment of the selfish point of veiw and the substitution for it of some form of devotion to others. [...] And the reason for the imperfection of each of these as pratised is to be sought in the finitude of the world itself which seems to have its own abhinivesa or attachment to its existence as finite and which for fear of self-destruction gives no scope for the complete realisation of any pure ideal which must belong to the sphere of the infinite. [...] The caste and communal politics which are painful to the patriot and amusing to the outsider have from the point of view of education and culture something of the vandalistic in them. [...] The author of course has his own angle of vision ; and thf—L-Iliect"50 EDUCATIONAL INDIA FOR AUGUST 1937 of the arrangement he says is to present them as an entire gamut of the sublimest of interests from the being and character of God to the duty and destiny of man " (p ix). [...] Another characteristic of these syllabi is the absence of relation in the content of the subjects with the requirements of the daily life of the pupils.