Education in BarodaM. Nowrojee, 1915 - 179 pages |
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A. V. W. Jackson Amara Sinha Amreli annual automatic increments appointed arithmetic Ashoka attention Baroda College Baroda High School Bhogilalbhai Bombay boys Brahmans British Buddhist castes cent century child curriculum Deputy Educ'l Insp'r Deputy Educational Inspector duties Dutt Educ❜l educa Education in India educational department elementary schools European examination geography girls give given grammar Gujarati Hargovinddasbhai head master History of India Hiuen Tsang hundred ideas industrial Inspec institutions Kadi Kalabhavan kindergarten kings knowledge language learning lessons Mahomedans Marathi Megasthenes Minister of Education moral nation Navsari Navsari districts number of pupils Pandya parents Parsi Patan period philosophy population practical Reading Series receive religious rupees rupees a month salaries Sanskrit says secondary schools Shankaracharya social Songad sub-div subjects supervision taught teaching tion University Urdu Urdu schools Veda vernacular vernacular schools Vidya Vidyadhikari village schools Visnagar women writing
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Page 4 - ... searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 39 - If it had been intended to keep the British nation in ignorance of real knowledge, the Baconian philosophy would not have been allowed to displace the system of the schoolmen, which was the best calculated to perpetuate ignorance. In the same manner the Sanskrit system of education would be the best calculated to keep this country in darkness, if such had been the policy of the British legislature.
Page 176 - Those who have charge of the city are •divided into six bodies of five each. The members of -the first look after everything relating to the industrial arts. Those of the second attend to the entertainment of foreigners. To these they assign lodgings, and they •keep watch over their modes of life by means of those persons whom they give to them for assistants.
Page 39 - We find that the Government are establishing a Sanskrit school under Hindu Pundits to impart such knowledge as is already current in India. This seminary (similar in character to those which existed in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon) can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practical use to the possessors or to society.
Page 39 - ... use to the possessors or to society. The pupils will there acquire what was known two thousand years ago, with the addition of vain and empty subtleties since produced by speculative men, such as is already commonly taught in all parts of India.
Page 40 - But as the improvement of the native population is the object of the Government, it will consequently promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction, embracing Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, with other useful sciences...
Page 25 - The day is not sufficient for asking and answering profound questions. From morning till night they engage in discussion; the old and the young mutually help one another.
Page 19 - The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And 'plunged in thought again.
Page 176 - The third body consists of those who inquire when and how births and deaths occur, with the view not only of levying a tax, but also in order that births and deaths among both high and low may not escape the cognizance of Government.
Page 171 - To insure modesty I would advise the education of the sexes together; for two boys will preserve twelve girls, or two girls twelve boys, innocent amidst winks, jokes, and improprieties, merely by that instinctive sense which is the forerunner of natural modesty.