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\n\t\t\tA WEEKLY
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\n\t\t\tThe Apostasy of the National Council<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n

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We have received an open letter from some teachers of the Rangpur National school in which they warn the President of the
\n\tNational Council of Education of the evil effects likely to ensue
\nfrom the recent National Risley Circular and protest strongly
\n\tagainst the policy underlying it. For reasons of space we are
\nunable to publish the letter. The signatories point out that the
\n\tmovement took its birth in the boycott movement and was from
\nthe first, closely associated with it in nature and sympathy, that
\n\tthe participation of young men in the national awakening has
\nbeen one of the chief causes of its rapid progress and success
\n\tand that the new policy of the Council not only divorces education from the life of the country, but destroys the sympathy
\n\tand support of the most progressive elements in the nation. It
\nis also pointed out that the donation made by Raja Subodh
\n\tMallik, from which the practicability of the movement took its
\nbeginning, and the sacrifices made by the teachers and students
\n\tof the first established schools were intimately connected with
\nthe revolt against the Risley Circular, and yet the same circular
\n\tis repeated in a more stringent form by the Council itself. There
\nwere two conditions attached to Raja Subodh Chandra’s gift: the
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which were created to give shelter to students who persisted
\nin taking part in politics in spite of all prohibitions, should
\n\tbe assisted out of his donation, and second that no form of
\nGovernment control should be submitted to by the Council. It
\n\twould be mere hypocrisy to deny that the issue of the prohibitory
\ntelegrams by the Secretary was the result of the Government
\n\tcircular previous to the seventh of August. We do not know
\nby what morality or law of honour the Council clings to the
\n\tdonation while infringing in the spirit its most vital condition.
\nPerhaps these things also, no less than courage and sincerity,
\n\tare considered unessential in this new “national” education. We
\nnotice that Sj. Hirendranath Dutt at Dacca seems to have openly
\n\tproclaimed the abjuration of all connection with politics as part
\nof the duty of a “National” school. We must therefore take the
\n\tdivorce of the National Council from the national movement
\nas part of a deliberate and permanent policy, and not, as it
\n\tmight otherwise have been imagined, a temporary aberration
\ndue largely to the fact that the President and the most active
\n\tof the two Secretaries are members of Legislative Councils and
\ntherefore parts of the Government which is supposed to have no
\n\tcontrol over the institution. All that we can now expect of the
\nCouncil is to be a centre of scientific and technical education; it
\n\tcan no longer be a workshop in which national spirit and energy
\nare to be forged and shaped.\n\t<\/p>\n

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A recent article in the Amrita Bazar Patrika
\n<\/i>gives a picture of
\n\tthe enormous educational progress made by China in a few
\nyears. In the short time since the Boxer troubles China has
\n\trevolutionised her educational system, established a network
\nof modern schools of all ranks, provided for a thorough modern
\n\teducation for her princes and nobles, and added to the intellectual education a thorough grounding in military knowledge and
\n\tthe habits of the soldier, so that, when the process is complete,
\nthe whole Chinese people will be a nation trained in arms whom
\n\tthe greatest combination of powers will not care to touch. On<\/p>\n

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another side of national development, a railway has just been
\nopened which has been entirely constructed and will be run
\n\tby Chinese. When the process of education is well forward,
\nit is intended by the Chinese Government to transform itself
\n\tinto a constitutional and Parliamentary government, and in its
\nprogramme this great automatic revolution has been fixed to
\n\tcome off in another eight years. No other race but the Chinese,
\ntrained by the Confucian system to habits of minute method,
\n\tperfect organisation and steady seriousness in all things great
\nand small, could thus calmly map out a stupendous political,
\n\tsocial and educational change, as if it were the programme
\nof a ceremonial function, and carry it out with thoroughness
\n\tand efficiency. Once the Chinese have made up their minds to
\nthis revolution, they are likely to carry it out with the greatest
\n\tpossible completeness, businesslike method, effective organisation, and the least possible waste and friction. In the history
\n\tof China, no less than the history of Japan, we are likely to
\nsee the enormous value of national will-power using the moral
\n\toutcome of a great and ancient discipline, even while breaking
\nthe temporary mould in which that discipline had cast society,
\n\tthought and government. We in India have an ancient discipline
\nmuch more powerful than the Chinese or Japanese; but where is
\n\tthe centre of sovereignty in India which will direct the national
\nwill-power to the right use of that discipline? Where even is
\n\tthe centre of national endeavour which will make up for the
\nabsence of such a Government? We have a Government manned
\n\tby aliens, out of touch with and contemptuous of the sources of
\nnational strength and culture; we have an education empty of
\n\tthem which seeks to replace our ancient discipline by a foreign
\nstrength, instead of recovering and invigorating our own culture
\n\tand turning it to modern uses; we have leaders trained in the
\nforeign discipline who do not know or believe in the force that
\n\twould, if made use of, revolutionise India more swiftly and
\nmightily than Japan was or China is being revolutionised. It is
\n\tthis and not internal division or the drag of old and unsuitable
\nconditions that makes the work in India more difficult than in
\n\tany other Asiatic country.<\/p>\n

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Partition Day comes round again on the 16th October. Last year,
\n\texecutive caprice prevented the day from being celebrated with
\nall its accustomed ceremonies; this year, there is not likely to be a
\n\tsimilar interference, and we trust that all the usual circumstances
\nof the occasion will be observed without any abridgment. On
\n\tthe 7th of August the official organisers were afraid to start the
\nprocession from the College Square; now that Sj. Surendranath
\n\tis with us, we trust that no such unworthy considerations will be
\nallowed to mar the fullness and imposing nature of this feature.
\n\tFrom no other centre in Calcutta is an effective procession at
\nall probable, and it was seen last August that the only result of
\n\ttrying to change it was to break up the procession and mar its
\neffect. The two most essential features, however, of the Partition
\n\tDay are the Rakhi Bandhan and the reading of the National
\nProclamation; it is above all a day of the declaration of Bengal’s
\n\tindivisible unity and these two functions are for that reason
\nthe very kernel of the observances. It is unfortunate that the
\n\tcelebration should coincide this year with the Puja sales, as
\nthis may interfere with the closing of the shops, which is the
\n\tmost salient sign of protest against the dismemberment. We
\nhope the official organisers are taking steps to counteract this
\n\tunfavourable factor.<\/p>\n

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