D. Answer in a paragraph.
1. What were the main recommendations of the
Wood's Despatch?
2. Discuss the merits and demerits of the Western
education system in India.
3. Write a note on the National Education
Movement in India.
4. Both Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi
were fierce critics of the Western model of
education. What was their approach to the
problem? Discuss.
5. Write a note on the educational reforms
introduced in the state of Baroda by its rulers.
Answers
Answer:
1. A major recommendation of the Wood's Despatch was to spread education among the common people and to make them vocationally efficient. Three universities in three Presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were set up as per the recommendations of the Despatch.
2.It broadened up the minds of the people and made them think rationally instead of blindly supporting orthodox norms, values and superstitious beliefs. I made people more civilised. 2.It introduced people to the new ideas and innovations which widened the periphery of learning.
3. The national education movement conditioned the later educational developments in the country. It influenced the quinquennial reports on the progress of education in India – 1912 -1917,1917 -1922,1922 -1927 and 1927-1932. ... It paved the way for making primary education free, universal and compulsory.
4. Mahatma Gandhi thought the English education developed a sense of inferiority among Indians. Many English educated Indians began to ape the Western ways of life; after getting educated in English. They also began to see the Indians with scorn. He believed that English education had enslaved the Indians
5. :In 1893, Maharaja Sayajirao III introduced a state-aided system of education making the Baroda state the first of its kind in colonial India to introduce free and compulsory education.
Answer:
1. A major recommendation of the Wood's Despatch was to spread education among the common people and to make them vocationally efficient. Three universities in three Presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were set up as per the recommendations of the Despatch.
2. I am a product of Western education. There are a lot of good things it offers. Here are some of itse less attractive features:
Western education teaches skills rather than knowledge, know-how rather than wisdom, the “immediate” rather than the lasting.
3. The national education movement conditioned the later educational developments in the country. It influenced the quinquennial reports on the progress of education in India – 1912 -1917,1917 -1922,1922 -1927 and 1927-1932. ... It paved the way for making primary education free, universal and compulsory.
4. Gandhiji was highly critical of Western civilisation and the prominence of machines and technology in it. On the other hand, Tagore wanted to combine elements of modern Western civilisation with what he saw best within Indian culture.
5. In 1893, Maharaja Sayajirao III introduced a state-aided system of education making the Baroda state the first of its kind in colonial India to introduce free and compulsory education.