Answer the following questions.
1. What was Macaulay's Minute? Explain its importance in the history of education.
2. What was the British motive behind the introduction of western education?
3. What was Wood's Despatch? State its main recommendations.
4. Why did Mahatma Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians?
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1.Lord Macaulay's Minute of 1835 advocates the spread of western education and philosophy and stopped all grants to oriental institutions of learning. He also declared that it is foolish to allow the oriental institutions to continue their functions in India.
2.British wanted to introduce modern western education to serve their economic interests as English education would convince Indians about the superiority of British goods which were machine made, it would make Indians recognize the advantages of trade and commerce.
3.When in 1854 he sent a dispatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India, Wood suggested that primary schools must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo-vernacular language and at college-level English should be the medium of education. This is known as Wood's despatch.
4.Mahatma Gandhi argued that colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians. ... There was poison in this education, said Mahatma Gandhi, it was sinful, it enslaved Indians, it cast an evil spell on them.
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