What were the flaws in woods despatch
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Merits of the Wood’s Despatch:
1. Wood‘s Despatch started a new era in Indian education system by clearly defining objectives of education.
2. It made the Government realise the importance of education for the people and presented a comprehensive scheme of education embracing primary, secondary and higher education.
3. It recommended the creation of a separate Department of Public Instruction in five provinces and appointment of a Director to head the Department.
4. The principle of Downward Filtration Theory was discarded by the Wood‘s Despatch and it encouraged the promotion of mass education. It recommended the establishment of indigenous schools.
5. By the grant-in-aid system many schools were benefited,the quality of education improved, and private organisations were encouraged to open new schools.
6. The Despatch encouraged higher education by recommending the establishment of universities in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras and emphasized on the necessity of vocational education.
7. The Despatch recommended scholarship for the poor and deserving students.
8. The Despatch recommended the importance of establishing teacher-training institutes to improve the quality of teachers and their conditions of salaries.
9. Wood‘s Despatch encouraged Language teaching. As a result, regional languages and classical languages were taught in the schools.
Demerits of the Wood’s Despatch:
1. The Despatch, in reality promoted Western literature and knowledge and government offices showed preferences for persons educated in English.
2. The education planning and management schemes remained only in black and white.
3. It neglected general education. Only the privileged class received education.
4. Indigenous schools remained neglected. Priority was given to people educated on English pattern with regard to government posts. M. R. Paranjpe stated that,the authors did not aim at education for leadership, education for the industrial regeneration of India, education for the defence of the motherland, in short, education required by the people of a self- governing nation.
5. Departments of Education were opened in the five provinces but they could not promote the real interest of education.
6. The system of grant-in-aid did not operate in proper sense, i.e., there was always the paucity of funds, the irregularity of their release and biased attitude towards the privately managed schools.
7. The Wood‘s Despatch had a partial attitude towards the Christian missionaries; Christian religious books were easily made available to the students, in the libraries.
9. The three universities were modelled on the London University and the Government‘s policy of nominating members to the senate was biased.Therefore higher education was not related to Indian conditions.
10. The Despatch succeeded in only producing a class of clerks and accountants.
11. Wood‘s Despatch could not remove the imbalance in Indian education system. The rich people sent their children to English medium schools and the government gradually stopped financial aid to the indigenous schools and so the existence of these schools became jeopardised. It failed to develop character initiative and leadership among students.
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