Gujarat Varnacular Societyno Itihas Part 02

Author(s): Hiralal Tribhuvandas Parekh
Publisher: Hiralal Tribhuvandas Parekh

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ing in vernacular languages has been relegated to less able hands, the reason being that those who take high education not having had any occasion to study vernaculars are not inclined to take up that kind of work and when they do undertake it most of them are not able to do it efficiently.
When the Vernaculars were struck out from the curriculum of higher University Examinations, the reason urged for the step was that the literature of these Vernaculars were poor and sufficient education to the mind could not be derived from them. The Managing Committee thoroughly sympathises with this view, and holds that without a second classical language education will be very defective. But it humbly believes that the total exclusion of the Vernaculars was not the proper step to be taken. What the Committee considers desirable is that at the Matriculation or any Examination which may be substituted in the place of it, there should be, in addition to the papers in classical languages, a paper containing questions in Vernacular Grammar and translation. In the higher Examinations one book of suitable difficulty may be appointed for each examination and pieces for translation from and into Vernaculars may be set rising in difficulty with each successive examination.
There is no doubt that with this addition, the studies will be too heavy for the students and the Committee, therefore, begs to recommend that the work in the classical languages or some other subject such as Mathematics may be reduced to some extent'