1. Answer the following questions briefly.
1. What were the main features of Lord Macaulay's recommendations
2. What were the major recommendations of Wood's Despatch?
3. How did the idea of a National Council of Education take shape
4. What were the main objectives of the British in introducing westem education in India?
5. What were the special features of Tagore's Shantiniketan?
Answers
Answer:
1:- Lord Macaulay is known to introduce British education system in India . He was not a big fan of Indian traditional educational system . English should be used as the medium of instruction in schools of India . Science and Western literature should be taught in Indian schools to Indians.
2:-The Despatch recommended the promotion of mass education by establishing schools, both public of and private. The Wood's Despatch recommended the establishment of three universities in the Presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras on the model of the London University.
3:- The National Council of Education (or NCE) was an organisation founded by Indian nationalists in Bengal in 1906 to promote science and technology as part of a swadeshi industrialisation movement. It established the Bengal National College and Bengal Institute which would later merge to form Jadavpur University.
4:- English was the language of communication and all administrative work was done in English. That was the reason why British started teaching English in India so as to raise an army of lowly paid staff to administer India.
5:- Captivated by the kaleidoscopic beauty of the luxuriantly canopied chhatim trees and palm groves that offered shade in the rugged, red coloured terrain, he bought the large tract of land that had charmed him, built a small house and planted some saplings around it.
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