History Chapter 7 ( Class 8 )

Why did Tagore hate going to school in his school days?

• The school appeared like a prison to him as he could never do what he felt like doing

• He found school suffocating and oppressive.

• He did not like his teachers

• The homework was a lot of burden for him

In view of Mahatma Gandhi, why was practical knowledge very much essential for development of person’s mind and soul?

• Mahatma Gandhi believed that western education focused on reading and writing rather than lived experiences and practical knowledge

• People had to work with their hands, learn a craft, and know how different things operated. This would develop their mind and their capacity to understand.

• it was essential as it increased the IQ level of a person

What was mentioned in the Wood’s Despatch ?

• It emphasized on the practical benefits of system of European learning.

• It argued that European learning would improve the moral character of Indians

• According to wood’s despatch European education was not good for Indians

Whom does the monument belong to?

• Warren Hasting

• Richard Westmacott

• Munshi

• Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Whose picture is this ?

• Henry Thomas Colebrooke

• Warren Hasting

• Richard Westmacott

• Vernacular

What is being depicted by this picture ?

• A class in progress in Santiniketan

• A person teaching students

Give a brief account of William Jones.

• William Jones came to India as a junior judge, to work in the Supreme Court set up by the East India Company.

• He was not good in his studies

• Jones knew many languages. Greek, Latin, French, English, Arabic and Persian

• He did not like to study different language

What were the special features of a pathshala?

• Classes were not held during harvest time when rural children worked in the fields.

• Students were not separated out into different classes: all of them sat together in one place.

• The guru interacted separately with groups of children with different levels of learning

• The classes were held differently for every age group

What were Tagore’s ideas on education?

• Tagore felt that childhood ought to be a time of self-learning, outside the rigid and restricting discipline of the schooling system set up by the British.

• Teachers had to be imaginative, understand the child, and help the child develop her curiosity.

• According to Tagore Indian education was more scientific than British education

• Tagore was in the favor of Indian education

What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?

• Due to Wood’s Despatch, Education Departments were established in every province.

• universities were opened at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1857 and in Punjab in 1882

• Attempts were also made to bring about changes within the system of school education.