Jaina Gazette 1936 02

SR No.: 034892
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 38
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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JAINA GAZETTE
In the India of the present times educational merit had no value at all. The value of competitive examina, tions was considerably discounted by a high percentage of marks to be allotted as the result of "personal interviews.” And the back door of communal representation, and patronage killed all stimulus and ambition. In no other country in the world there existed this terrible curse of communal representation and official nomination and patronage.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Sapru touched the true chord when he said:--
Look at the disappointment of parents and the greater disappointment of the young men who, after they have left the universities with degrees attached to their names, find that they must go from door to door begging for letters of recommendation, lavours and things of that kind which must in my humble opinion be very demoralizing to them and to their parents.'
With all the efforts they made what was the result? I and my colleagues on the Unemployment Committee have been told that there were B. A.'s of the university who had been enrolled as constables, that there were M. A.'s who were selling milk in the streets and that there were men who after passing the intermediate examination were engaged as cycle peons. These were positions which they would not be allowed to accept in England by virtue of certain traditions of the English bar.
This was so because of the canker of communal favouritism and o:ficial patronage, which operated as fatal poison to real merit. Ways to right education
Dr. Arundale, President of the Theosophical Society in closing the Diamond Jubilee of the International Convention at Adyar observed that education in this