Education in India Quotes
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“Sri Aurobindo”
“India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education.”
“Every young Brahmin... who learns geography in our colleges, learns to smile at the Hindu mythology.”
“Wikipedia: Education in India”
“Old India had a high rate of literacy, particularly because of its educational system, its Sanskrit and its gurukulams.”
“Muslim rule should never atttact any criticism. Destruction of temples by Muslim rulers and invaders should not be mentioned.”
“The enrolment of Muslim children at the primary school level in the relevant period was 12.39 per cent as against the child population of 16.81 per cent.”
“It is my firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolator among the respectable classes of Bengal thirty years hence.”
“[Is the system in England different from that introduced in India?] Yes, [in India] they want only clerks and the education is intended for nothing else.”
“Hindu sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which our hand cannot yet reach, to Kashmir, Benaras and other places.”
“As Gandhiji pointed out, in a country where the Ramayana is recited by the low-lowliest, in the remotest corners, the incidence and the quality of its education must be very high indeed.”
“Universities are the intellectual sanctuaries of the inner life of the nation. They must train intellectual pioneers, seeking guidance from the past but providing dynamics to realise new dreams.”
“But how is this previous process of elevating and Christianizing the men to be effected? We must begin with the schools... In this way we shall best prepare our Indian school-boys for a voluntary acceptance of Christian truth.”
“[The British system of education led to...] “The rise of a class of young prigs for whom it became the done thing to denigrate everything Indian in an attempt at blind imitation of the customs and attitudes of western people”.”
“Hindu [educational] institutions have no fundamental right to compensation in case of compulsory acquisition of their property by the state... a lasting solution to this problem lies only in amending Article 30 of the Constitution...”
“Education in general, and the process of curriculum development in particular, in many … developing countries which not long ago were part of the colonial rule, even now continue to be strongly influenced by the vestiges of the past.”
“The economy with which children are taught to write in the native schools, and the system by which the more advanced scholars are caused to teach the less advanced, and at the same time to confirm their own knowledge is certainly admirable, and well deserves the imitation it has received in England.”
“The most vitriolic reaction came from the Leftists as they had to hide their own skeletons. They feared their own skewed curriculum would be exposed—their history and social science books which teach how Lenin inspired the Indian freedom struggle and which ignore Rabindranath Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose or Gandhi’s contributions.”