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The Ripon College Magazine. January 1938

1938

But the fact is that generally speaking in these learned homilies very little is said about the basic problems of education itself and almost the whole breath is spent upon more inspiring topics such as the glories of Ancient Ind the menace of the authoritarian state the benefits of infantile participation in the exhilarating game of party politics and so on and so forth. [...] But that mid-Victorian scientific self-complacency and cocksureness are scarcely visible to-day In the face of newer discoveries and failures to discover in the face of the ever-growing revelation that Nature's mysteries are getting deeper still in the face of the visible crumbling down of the basic concepts of traditional physics and classical mechanics in the face of the conundrum of matter an [...] The requirements of the whole man must be kept in mind the man as an indvidual the man as a social being And by the measure that man is elevated and ennobled by the measure that the development of man is ensured in the pregnant words of Goethe I Ganzen Guten Schoenen—in full orbed wholeness in the good in the beautiful—in Sat vain Shiva In Sunda ram—will the system of education be judg [...] If the majority of persons in the nation being given to luxury live an indolent life the protection of the country from the invasion of the foreign foes is to be left in the hands of the necessary fighters who would sell the country to the highest bidder. [...] But the the sad side of the consciousness for sorrow and pain which is the product of the spirit of Negation (wR101) cannot rock the poet's belief in "An abstract Intelligence " and he is "still a lover of the meadows and the woods and mountains" "well pleased to recognise In Nature and language of sense" the anchor of his purest thoughts.
education
Pages
145
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120237
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Devaprasad Ghosh view
Frontmatter
i-v Devaprasad Ghosh view
Editorial Notes
i-vii Devaprasad Ghosh view
In Memoriam: The Late Sachindranath Mookerjee
1-6 Devaprasad Ghosh view
Higher Education:
7-21 Devaprasad Ghosh view
God in Naturalism
22-26 Bejoy Ray view
The Emotional Effect of Tragedy
26-28 Anilranjan Biswas view
The Mystic Wordsworth in an Indian’s eye
29-33 Narayan Roy view
A Confession
34-37 Devaprasad Ghosh view
Sunset
37-38 Bejoy Basu view
Philately
38-40 Radha Bhattacharya view
The Possibilities of Cotton-Mill Industry in Bengal
41-i Paresh Gorai view
BaniBandana
1-2 Srinibas Bhattacharyya view
Jagadish-Prayane
2-3 Kanailal Ghosh view
Kedar-Badrir Patha
4-22 Amarendranath Lahiri view
Porloke Acharya Herambochandra
23-33 Binodbehari Bandopadhyay view
Bani-Bandana
34-34 Sukumar Dutta view
Kavita Lekha
35-40 Mohinimohan Chowdhury view
Pujabasane
41-42 Shashankosekhar Dutta view
Pallysree
42-44 Anowar Hossan view
Barsar Megh
44-46 Nandogopal Ray view
Kanika
46-47 Arnendu Dutta Majumder view
Pramik
47-49 Durgadas Bhattacharyya view
Guru-Shisho
50-51 Gourishankar Mukhopadhyay view
Boiragi
52-53 Ramendranath Basu view
Bangali Krishaker Jivan-Katha
53-57 Sukumar Dey view
Alo Aro Alo
57-58 Panchanan Chakraborty view
Hazaribage Kayakdin
58-71 Ajitkumar Ghorai view
Banolaxmi
71-72 Rabindranath Mukhopadhyay view
Bad-Sadha
72-73 Brojendranarayan Mukhopadhyay view
Youdha-Bhiti
73-74 Arsik Gupta view
Chorer Akhap
74-74 “Musafir” view

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