East India (Calcutta University Commission): Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India to Enquire Into the Condition and Prospects of the University of Calcutta, Volume 6H.M. Stationery Office, 1920 |
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Additional Member agricultural Allahabad Assistant B.Sc Bar.-at-Law Bengal Legislative Council Bengal Presidency Board Bombay Burdwan Calcutta University cent Chandra Chinsura Chittagong Chittagong College classes Committee Conference Cooch Behar course Dacca College Department Director of Public Domiciled Community European schools Fellow Formerly Professor girls Gold Medallist Governing Body Government of Bengal Government of India Gupta Head Master High Court High School Hon'ble Hooghly hostel Inspector of Schools institutions intermediate colleges Khan Bahadur Krishnagar Kumar Laboratory language Lecturer M.Sc Madras University Madrassah Mathematics Maulvi Medical College Mohan Mohsin Fund Muhammadan Muslim Nath number of candidates number of students Offg paper Particulars of person person consulted Pleader Premchand Roychand Premchand Roychand Student Presidency College Professor of English Public Instruction pupils Rajshahi Rajshahi College salaries Sanskrit Scottish Churches College secondary schools Secretary STANFORD Superintendent teachers tion total number University of Calcutta vernacular VIII
Passagens conhecidas
Página 6 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern ; a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Página vii - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Página 28 - The importance of female education in India cannot be overrated ; and we have observed with pleasure the evidence which is now afforded of an increased desire on the part of many of the natives of India to give a good education to their daughters. By this means a far greater proportional impulse is imparted to the educational and moral tone of the people than by the education of men.
Página 11 - We look, therefore, to the English language and to the vernacular languages of India together, as the media for the diffusion of European knowledge, and it is our desire to see them cultivated together in all schools in India of a sufficiently high class to maintain a schoolmaster possessing the requisite qualifications...
Página 2 - We are not without experience to guide us. History furnishes several analogous cases, and they all teach the same lesson. There are in modern times, to go no further, two memorable instances of a great impulse given to the mind of a whole society - of prejudices overthrown - of knowledge diffused - of taste purified - of arts and sciences planted in countries which had recently been ignorant and barbarous. The first instance to which I refer is the great revival of letters among the Western nations...
Página 2 - September; not by calling him 'a learned native,' when he has mastered all these points of knowledge ; but by teaching him those foreign languages in which the greatest mass of information had been laid up, and thus putting all that information within his reach. The languages of western Europe civilised Russia. I cannot doubt that they will do for the Hindoo what they have done for the Tartar.
Página viii - I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Página 8 - India the marvellous results of the employment of labour and capital, rouse them to emulate us in the development of the vast resources of their country, guide them in their efforts and gradually, but certainly, confer upon them all the advantages which accompany the healthy increase of wealth and commerce...
Página 2 - Hindoo what they have done for the Tartar. And what are the arguments against that course which seems to be alike recommended by theory and by experience? It is said that we ought to secure the cooperation of the native public, and that we can do this only by teaching Sanscrit and Arabic. I can by no means admit that, when a nation of high intellectual attainments undertakes to superintend the education of a nation comparatively ignorant, the learners are absolutely to prescribe the course which...
Página 1 - Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.