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EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM.
(BY T. L. VASWANI. )
......"The current system, specially in areas under official influence and control, is directed-misdirectedby political motives. A school or college should be a temple of culture. As it is, propoganda is often placed above truth. This is specially the case with regard to the teaching of History. A text-book for the matriculation students of the Bombay University refers. I am told, to Tilak, as a 'mischief maker'! Another text-book in the Punjab University speaks of the great Jain Prophet of 'Ahinsa' Lord Mahavira, in terms which have wounded, I think rightly, the sentiments of the Jain community. In many a subtle way, the impression is created on immature minds that Indians are, essentially, inferior to Englishmen, and that Indian culture and Indian civilization are but poor things compared to Europe's. The ancient past is often ignored or distorted, and when we come to the modern period it is the British who are represented-misrepresented as having been invariably imferior to the Indian. To teach History in this spirit is to weaken the moral fibre of Indian students.”....
( New Times, Karachi 16. 5. 25 )
