The Adventure of Education September 1949

By granting simultaneously the need for a compulsory teaching of the regional language from a fairly early stage of the child's education the Conference has ensured that the linguistic minority will not be cut off from the general stream of the life of the people in that area. [...] The whole of the next day we were thinking and talking of our great success on the first day of our proposed Child Education work amongst the Adivasis in their own colony and the perfect co-operation of the local people. [...] If the pupils are helped to build the scenery make the cotumes arrange the lights and manage the stage under the direction of teachers who love drama and have a working 29Chitra Naik knowledge of the arts and crafts required the problem of epenses is effectively solved. [...] They help to fix up the nature of the repertoire and the mode of presening the play and the standard of performance. [...] At the Worcester Museum of Art in Massachusetts he would glimpse a roomful of chilren listening with rapt attention to an account of the bacground of the art of Egypt or the visual discoveries of the French moderns doubly interesting to them because of their familiarity with the Museum's exhibits.