What were Raja Ram Mohan Roy's contributions to education?
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy also brought reforms in the field of education. He established The Hindu College, the City College, Vedanta College, and English Schools were established in Calcutta through his efforts......
We are more concerned here with the work of Raja Ram Mohan Roy as an educationist, and it is in this field that we find his most signal services to his country. He was one of the earliest Indians to realize that India`s greatest need was a Synthesis of Eastern and Western cultures. At the same time, he understood that the Indian mind had rusted very considerably on account of its isolation and realized that contact with Western Literature and Science alone could regenerate oriental culture, correct its follies and contribute to it the essential qualities which are lacked.
In field of education, Ram Mohan was one of the first thinkers in India to realize the value of Western Science, and thought. He created major opinion in favor of the English education that could generate a sense of unity among the Indian educated youths. His ideas of western education helped the Government of Lord William Bentinck to introduce European learning in India.
Ram Mohan`s contributions to other aspects of social and literary life were highly valuable. True it is that, Mrityunjoy Vidyalankar, Ram Mohan Bose, Rajiblochan, Carey etc. had preceded him in the field of Bengali prose literature, yet it must be admitted that Ram Mohan contributed a style and standard which facilitated the development of Bengali prose as a vehicle of stories, novels as well as polemical literature.
The great contribution of Ram Mohan Roy to the system of modern education was
his emphasis on the study of modern Indian languages. He himself gave a great lead in the matter by writing books in Bengali on Grammar, Geography, Astronomy and Geometry and he is considered as the father of modern literary Bengali prose. His advocacy of the study and development of modern Indian languages.
Equally able was the Raja`s advocacy of the education of Women. Although the concept had already been put forward by missionaries, it was the Raja who helped to popularize it among the Hindus. He said that the women of India were highly educated and that the education of women was in keeping with ancient religious traditions and beliefs. The Brahma Samaj did great service in removing the popular prejudices against the education of women that were the prevalent in the Hindu society and the credit for this goes mostly to Ram Mohan.
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