Now, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says Britain aped Indian education system

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

Now, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says Britain aped Indian education system
Date published: Sunday, 3 January 2016 - 7:58am IST | Place: Pune | Agency: PTI
"The British destroyed the traditional education system of India. But they took it to Britain with them and replicated it in the form of county education system there," he said.

RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday claimed that Britain aped the traditional education system of India during the colonial era in order to establish a "county education system".

Speaking at the conclusion of 'Vishwa Sangh Shivir' in Pune, Bhagwat said that while doing so, the British systematically destroyed the old education system in India to emasculate the Indians mentally.

"The British destroyed the traditional education system of India. But they took it to Britain with them and replicated it in the form of county education system there," he said.

Bhagwat also claimed that before the British came, 70 per cent of Indians were literate, while only 17 per cent of people in Britain were literate. Through the county education system, Britain achieved 70 per cent literacy, while Indians fell behind because of the education system imposed by the British.

The British believed that the education system in India should undermine the natives' confidence and they should become "mentally emasculated", the RSS chief said.

Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said in his speech at the function that India must exploit the science and technology more and more for the development of agriculture and the rural areas. Nair also expressed concern about rising costs of medical treatment in the country.


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[Pindi Boy]

Now, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says Britain aped Indian education system
Date published: Sunday, 3 January 2016 - 7:58am IST | Place: Pune | Agency: PTI
"The British destroyed the traditional education system of India. But they took it to Britain with them and replicated it in the form of county education system there," he said.

RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday claimed that Britain aped the traditional education system of India during the colonial era in order to establish a "county education system".

Speaking at the conclusion of 'Vishwa Sangh Shivir' in Pune, Bhagwat said that while doing so, the British systematically destroyed the old education system in India to emasculate the Indians mentally.

"The British destroyed the traditional education system of India. But they took it to Britain with them and replicated it in the form of county education system there," he said.

Bhagwat also claimed that before the British came, 70 per cent of Indians were literate, while only 17 per cent of people in Britain were literate. Through the county education system, Britain achieved 70 per cent literacy, while Indians fell behind because of the education system imposed by the British.

The British believed that the education system in India should undermine the natives' confidence and they should become "mentally emasculated", the RSS chief said.

Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said in his speech at the function that India must exploit the science and technology more and more for the development of agriculture and the rural areas. Nair also expressed concern about rising costs of medical treatment in the country.


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Which kind of fantasies these idiots are living...

 

[TejasMk3]

What he is saying is true:
In fact he was inspired by watching the traditional Tamil schooling system and other schooling systems around India:

The Hindu : Three bells recall Bell of Madras

It was while superintending the Asylum and exploring Madras that he discovered how children were taught in a traditional Tamil school. He saw a teacher get an older boy to trace in the sand letters to make words and he later saw this older boy pass on the learning in the same way to smaller boys. With the shortage of teachers the Asylum was facing, it seemed the best way to teach the largest number. And he found the right older boy in an eight-year-old, John Frisken, who was later to become the printer of the Madras Courier. When Frisken began teaching the beginners their letters in the sand, there was born the monitorial system of education, older students teaching younger ones. Back home, calling it the Madras System, Bell wrote prolifically about it till St. Botolph's in Algate, London, adopted the method. Soon, others followed and by 1816 the System was being followed in hundreds of schools in Britain and tens of thousands of students were learning from older students.

The System may not be followed today, but many of Bell's ideas, conveyed in his numerous writings, have come to stay - not least a monitorial system in public schools, even if the monitors are now meant to be more mentors. Most of these ideas grew out of his Madras experience. No wonder he wanted Madras remembered in the name of the school he founded.

Monitorial System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madras School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bell's "Madras System" was so named because it originated at the Military Male Orphan Asylum, Egmore, near Madras. Gladman describes Bell's system from notes taken from "Bell's Manual" which had been published by the National Society two years after Bell's death, in 1832. "After observing children in a native school, seated on the ground, and writing in the sand, he set a boy, John Frisken, to teach the alphabet on the same principle... Bell was consequently led to extend and elaborate the system."
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The system revolutionized education in Europe.

India was at the time far more literate than England, schools system was suffocated due to non availability of funds and at the behest of Missionaries who wanted to shutdown Hindu and Muslim run schools and lobbied hard towards that goal.

A simple glace of East India company surveys of India at the time gives a lot of Information, from the book "the beautiful tree".Has a few interesting facts about education amongst muslims and caste wise breakdown of students/teachers and also sheer number of schools and colleges (even though this survey was done after the rot had set in). Will post more later.