India & Europe Compared - Softcover

Briggs, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1151246158 ISBN 13: 9781151246158

Verlag: General Books LLC, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... attendants on temples and at Hindu religious and domestic festivals. Of the number of boys between five and twelve, fit to be at school, according to the calculation made of that portion of the population, about one-third were receiving education at colleges or schools, independently of private tuition, of which no return was made. Sir Thomas Munro seems to have taken the same view of education for the Natives as Mr. Elphinstone. This involved a better description of moral teaching in the vernacular languages, to be effected through the means of Native students at a college to be founded at the Presidency for the purpose of forming normal schoolmasters. These were required in the first instance to be thoroughly grounded in their vernacular languages, with a competent knowledge of Sanscrit, and subsequently to be taught English, so as to be able to read, write, and translate correctly. This done, it was proposed that the proficients should be sent as teachers to the several collectorates, and establish at the head-quarters of each a school for normal tuition. As the students became competent to teach, they were to be spread through the districts in the principal towns, carrying with them the well-grounded knowledge they had acquired, and diffusing through the country the books, whether of their own literature or translated from the English, which were from time to time printed at the Government press of the Presidency: the whole to be regulated by a Council of Education at Madras, consisting partly of Europeans and partly of Natives of education. The return states that the male pupils were as follows:--Brahmins 42,502 Mercantile class 19,690 Agricultural and other classes... 126,458 Total 188,650 According to this plan there were to have been eventually di...

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• Verlag: General Books LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1151246158
• ISBN 13: 9781151246158
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 50