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tamil nadu|Mahatma Gandhi
CHENNAI: Strongly objecting to the Tamil Nadu
government's decision to introduce English medium of instruction in
government schools, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Monday said education
through mother tongue would help the children in self-learning.
Education through 'non-native' language would disturb students' self
learning, he said in his customary letter to partymen. "Education
through native language alone would nurture self-learning in children.
Education through non-native language would obstruct self-learning,"
Karunanidhi said.
Recalling that Mahatma Gandhi and DMK founder C N Annadurai had advocated the same, he said, "English is not even a spoken language in many countries in the world. Russia, Germany, Japan and China have been using their native language as official language."
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Mahatma GandhiBased on Gandhi's article in 'Young India' of July 5,1928,by Dr. Jyotsna Kamat
Mahatma Gandhi had his own approach on various aspects of Indian life including education. He firmly believed that vernaculars or native languages of India should be the medium of instruction in schools. Several people disagreed. For them English language was the only window to knowledge and to the outside world. There was a comment in "Times of India" (then owned by a British Company), that right from Rajaram Mohan Roy down to Gandhi, every one of the Indians, who have achieved anything worth mentioning in any direction, was or is the fruit of directly or indirectly, of western education.
This evoked a reply from Gandhi. No one could dispute the importance or influence of western education and culture, he felt. "What is resented is the sacrifice of Indian or Eastern culture at the altar of the Western. Even if it could be proved that Western culture was superior to Eastern, it would be injurious to India as a whole, for her most promising sons and daughters to be brought up in western culture and thus become denationalized and torn from the people" (masses).
Gandhi felt that the achievement of his contemporaries was due to the retention of their native culture, in spite of western influence. Gandhi acknowledged his debt to western culture, but insisted that whatever he was able to achieve was due to this retention of native traits. Otherwise "I should have been thoroughly useless, to the masses as an anglicized, denationalized person, caring less or despising Indian ways, habits thoughts and aspirations. If the children were not rooted in their culture and had not imbibed the thoughts and habits of their homeland, it was a great loss", he wrote.
"Would Chaitanya, Nanak, Kabir, Tulsidas and host of other reformers have done better if they had been attached from their childhood, to the most efficiently managed English schools? Would Dayanada (Saraswati) have done better if he were an M.A. of an Indian University? No raja or maharaja brought up from their infancy, under western culture could be named under the same breath as Shivaji"-- Gandhi remarked.
Many of the royals or rajas and maharajas of different native states of Gandhi's time, were made foreigners in their own land. They spent a lot of time in Europe instead of being in India and caring for miseries of their subjects. They arranged hunting parties (shikar) for the British and spent time in sports and artistic pursuits. (see: Princely States)
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Recalling that Mahatma Gandhi and DMK founder C N Annadurai had advocated the same, he said, "English is not even a spoken language in many countries in the world. Russia, Germany, Japan and China have been using their native language as official language."
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Mahatma GandhiBased on Gandhi's article in 'Young India' of July 5,1928,by Dr. Jyotsna Kamat
Mahatma Gandhi had his own approach on various aspects of Indian life including education. He firmly believed that vernaculars or native languages of India should be the medium of instruction in schools. Several people disagreed. For them English language was the only window to knowledge and to the outside world. There was a comment in "Times of India" (then owned by a British Company), that right from Rajaram Mohan Roy down to Gandhi, every one of the Indians, who have achieved anything worth mentioning in any direction, was or is the fruit of directly or indirectly, of western education.
This evoked a reply from Gandhi. No one could dispute the importance or influence of western education and culture, he felt. "What is resented is the sacrifice of Indian or Eastern culture at the altar of the Western. Even if it could be proved that Western culture was superior to Eastern, it would be injurious to India as a whole, for her most promising sons and daughters to be brought up in western culture and thus become denationalized and torn from the people" (masses).
Gandhi felt that the achievement of his contemporaries was due to the retention of their native culture, in spite of western influence. Gandhi acknowledged his debt to western culture, but insisted that whatever he was able to achieve was due to this retention of native traits. Otherwise "I should have been thoroughly useless, to the masses as an anglicized, denationalized person, caring less or despising Indian ways, habits thoughts and aspirations. If the children were not rooted in their culture and had not imbibed the thoughts and habits of their homeland, it was a great loss", he wrote.
"Would Chaitanya, Nanak, Kabir, Tulsidas and host of other reformers have done better if they had been attached from their childhood, to the most efficiently managed English schools? Would Dayanada (Saraswati) have done better if he were an M.A. of an Indian University? No raja or maharaja brought up from their infancy, under western culture could be named under the same breath as Shivaji"-- Gandhi remarked.
Many of the royals or rajas and maharajas of different native states of Gandhi's time, were made foreigners in their own land. They spent a lot of time in Europe instead of being in India and caring for miseries of their subjects. They arranged hunting parties (shikar) for the British and spent time in sports and artistic pursuits. (see: Princely States)
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