Jain Gazette 1920 06

SR No.: 542650
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagnanderlal Jaini, Ajit Prasada, C S Mallinath Jain
Publisher: Jaina Gazette Office
Publication Year: 1920
Total Pages: 36
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.
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Jaina School is second to none in any of those matters, efficiency, cleanliness and the like, in which consists the quality of excellence in an educational institution of this kind.
I now pags on to the more important subject of the method of instruction. Some years ago I was given an opportunity by my excellent friend Lala Jaggi Mal Ji, of actually witnessing the different classes at work, as it were, and had then a good opportunity of following the method in vogue in this place; and what I saw then impressed me well in favour of the system followed here, in as much as it directly aimed at bringing out and developing the student's own native wit instead of strangling and choking it by cramming it full of disarranged inisunderstood figures and facts. I think it is high time that people recognised that the cashvalue of education lay not so much in the amount of learning that was or could be forced down the throat of a pupil as in the development of a capacity for the application of knowledge acquired along with its acquisition. As a proof of the excellent method of instruction emploved by this Jaina institution I may mention the fact that Logic will be taught here in the ninth and tenth classes this year, whereas in other places and institutions it is reserved for College Students alone. It is not that school boys are incapable of understanding Logic when properly taught but that the Logic that is taught in other institutions is dressed up in such artificial forms and formulas that even College Stndents find it no easy task to follow. I consider it very necessary to impart instruction to our boys and girls in Logic at an early period of life to develop their power of reasoning and to make them rational and reasonable; and I also think that it can be taught to moderately intelligent children when they are about 12 or 13 years of age. : :
The simplicity of the course of instruction in Logic may be demonstrated by calling up a certain number-say half a dozen of boys from the 8th class and by putting to them the following or other similar questions, with necessary variations :
(1) To-day is Sunday: what will it be to-morrow ? (2) You say it will be Monday tomorrow : "can you tell
me why it will not be Tuesday, Saturday or any
other day of the week than Monday ? The replies of 4 at least out of the 6 boys, to these questions, it will be seen, will be to the effect that a Sanday is always