Correspondence Relating to Vernacular Education in the Lower Provinces of Bengal. Returns Relating to Native Printing Presses and Publications in Bengal. A Return of the Names and Writings of 515 Persons Connected with Bengali Literature, Either as Authors Or Translators of Printed Works, Chiefly During the Last Fifty Years and a Catalogue of Bengali Newspapers and Periodicals which Have Issued from the Press from the Year 1818 to 1855, Submitted to Government by J. Long, 1855. Correspondence Relating to the Question Whether the Assamese Or Bengali Lanuguage Should be Taught in the Assam Schools. Report of the Director of Public Instruction in the Lower Provinces for the First Quarter of 1855-56 |
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Page 32 - Government with a report regarding that society, — and I would conclude upon this subject by recording my opinion that when such a scheme as that proposed by Mr. Adam comes to be tried, the arrangements for introducing it should be on a liberal and effective scale, and that it ought not to be undertaken at all, until the Government is satisfied that it has at command a thoroughly zealous and qualified superintendence.
Page 23 - In all these parts there is a population no less teeming and a people as capable of learning." The same wants prevail, and the same moral obligation rests upon the Government to exert itself for the purpose of dispelling the present ignorance. The means...
Page 23 - I cannot refrain from recording anew in this place, my deep regret that the ear which would have heard this welcome sanction given, with so much joy, is now dull in death. — I desire at the same time to add the expression of my feeling, that even though Mr. Thomason had left no other memorial of his public life behind him, this system of general Vernacular education, which is all his own, would have sufficed to build up for him a noble and abiding monument of his earthly career.
Page 23 - And while I cannot refrain from recording anew, in this place, my deep regret that the ear which would have heard this welcome sanction given with so much joy, is now dull in death. I desire at the same time to add the expression of my feeling, that even though Mr. Thomason had left no...
Page 191 - It is indispensable, therefore, that in any general system of education the study of them should be assiduously attended to. And any acquaintance with improved European knowledge which is to be communicated to the great mass of the people — whose circumstances prevent them from acquiring a high order of education, and who cannot be expected to overcome the difficulties of a foreign language — can only be conveyed to them through one or other of these vernacular languages.
Page 10 - During my long connection with education in India, and familiarity with the attainments and appearance of the pupils of all castes and classes, I never witnessed a more gratifying and interesting scene. Each school read and explained in succession passages from the vernacular readers prepared for them ; answered questions in geography, exhibited a most creditable knowledge of the statistics and topographical features of their own districts and displayed a quickness and accuracy in answering exceedingly...
Page 29 - ... would be the simplest, the safest, the most popular, the most economical, and the most effectual plan for giving that stimulus to the native mind which it needs on the subject of education, and for eliciting the exertions of the natives themselves for their improvement, without which all other means must be unavailing...
Page 7 - a population" still more "teeming". There too the same wants prevail, and the same moral obligation rests upon the Government to exert itself for the purpose of dispelling the present ignorance.
Page 191 - ... useful and practical knowledge, suited to every station in life, may be best conveyed to the great mass of the people, who are utterly incapable of obtaining any education worthy of the name "by their own unaided efforts...
Page 12 - ... object for which it was designed, as far as its limited trial will admit of, but has actually already outrun its own means of extension, for want of books and instruments of a higher order than those now in use. In the second year of its trial in the experimental districts sanctioned, it has raised the number of boys receiving a sound elementary education from 17,000 to 30,000, has thrown into the schools between...