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Bombay Presidency Secondary Teachers Conference. Sixth Session at Hyderabad Sind (1929)

1929

Of course the outstanding feature of the town the windcatchers was noted e' every visitor The Conference had arranged an extensive excursion of the Province and on the night of the 27th a party of about 40 delegates left for Sukkur and were taken to the Barrage from the Janvary station. [...] The stone-cutting shed the elaborate workshop the extensive gate-heads the various operations of the Barrage all were explained by the experts in charge of the work and the party returned to Sadhbella to have a refreshing bath in the holy waters of the Sindhu and a quiet meal amid sacred surroun:lings. [...] A notable feature of the Conference which struck them was the part taken by the lady delegates in the deliberations the dril by the girls of the Kanya Vidyalaya and the opening and closing songs by Mrs. [...] Like the stem of a tree supported by the slender roots of elementary education on the one hand and yielding sweet fruit and fragrant flowers of the University edcation on the other secondary education decides the character and the strength of the educational advancement of a civilised nation. [...] It is the business of the secondary schools to cure the defects left over by the elementary schools and pass on their pupils full of vigor and energy either into the world outside to take their place as useful members of the society or as scholars eager to pursue higher studies and to add to the sutotal of the knowledge of the world.
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Sixth Session at Hyderabad Sind
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Programme
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Welcome to the Delegates
6-13 Pribhdas Shewakaram view
Presidential Address
14-23 M.R. Paranjpe view
Resolutions Adopted
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