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q Primary schools should be opened in villages. SHORTCOMINGS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION

q High schools and colleges should be started at Though English education had been started in
the district level in the cities. India, yet it suffered from some very serious

q Voluntary associations should be encouraged shortcomings. Some of these were the following :
to establish schools and colleges by giving q Mass education was totally neglected as the
them grants. chief purpose of the British was to create such
people who could work in the lower posts,
q An education department should be set up in
each province to supervise and standardise because it was costlier to bring the British
education in the provinces. citizens to work in them.
q Woman education was totally neglected.
q Affiliated universities, on the model of the
London University, should be opened at q Lack of funds was one of the prominent
Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. reasons that education could not be spread in
all parts of the country.
q Vocational teachers’ training, technical schools
and colleges should be established. q English was made the medium of instruction,
and the development of vernacular languages
Quiz Time was totally neglected.

Fill in the blanks : q Scientific and technical education was also
neglected because the British wanted clerks to
1. Technical education was almost __________ .
work in the government departments, and not
2. A __________ college was started by the British engineers and scientists.
resident.

3. The Christian missionaries were opposed to the IMPACT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION
education of __________ learning.
The introduction of western education and
4. __________ recommended English language as imparting education through the medium of
the medium of instruction and English system of English language had both favourable and
education in India. unfavourable impacts.

5. The education introduced by the British can be Info Bits
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called the __________ system.
At present, India possesses the largest technical
An effort was made by Lord Dalhousie , then workforce in the world.
Governor General. As a result, an agricultural Favourable Impact of English Education
institute was established at Calcutta and an
engineering institute was established at Roorkee q The introduction of English education
(now in Uttarakhand). Universities were opened at expanded knowledge of the Indians. They
Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1857 and in came to know about the ideals of justice,
Punjab in 1882 and Allahabad in 1887. Seven equality and liberty.
universities were established in India during 1916- q The Indians realised the importance of
21; these were Mysore, Patna, Dacca, Lucknow, reforming their religions, so many social and
Banaras, Aligarh and Osmania. religious movements were started in the
country.
Further, five more universities were established in
1921-37 period, namely Delhi, Nagpur, Andhra, q It created a class of intellectuals among Indians
Agra and Chidambaram (Madras). A number of who provided leadership to the Indians in
other basic schools and high schools too were politics, society, religion and culture. Our
opened at different places. national movement for freedom was guided by
these people.
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