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Rapidly falling educational standards in India have added to the sorrows of the nation. Passing even the highest examinations even with a good second division is no guarantee that the successful candidate knows anything of the subjects which he had offered. The army of literate illiterates is alarmingly increasing from year to year. In the past people talked of the educated unemployed. Now the problem is of the ‘educated’ unemployables. These young men hold the highest degree and are yet unable to read or write correctly, or even tolerably correctly, even the sentences. What a shocking state of affairs.
This tragedy is the result of the neglect of language teaching in our schools and colleges. Today a very large number of language teachers are themselves unable to read or write correctly the language which they are supposed to teach. This is, indeed, intorable.
What is the remedy? One suggestion which deserves public as well as official attention is the opening of language schools offering concentrated courses in such schools about eighty percent of the teaching class work and home work should be confined to the teaching of English and of the mother tongue. Only about twenty percent of the teaching and the school work should be connected with the other subjects of the students choice. If there are six periods of teaching every day, only about eight or nine periods a week should be given to non-language subjects. The rest should be given exclusively to a through grounding in English and in the mother tongue.
In these language schools there should be no text books of language. Helpful and careful training should be given for at least four periods a day, preferably a little more, in transiation, paragraph writing, essay writing, letter writing and correspondence, making of summaries or précis, doing unseen passages, framing of sentences, correcting of sentences and other exercises in composition. Training in dictation will be a very important item and every student will have to be carefully trained to write correctly to dictation. Let us never forget even for a moment that this is an age of written administration. Our administration is already on the brink of disaster because of inept and incompetent men wqho do not know how to do writing work. We must tighten our standards in writing and reduce to the minmum loose ends in written work,. Very large numbers of highly trained and devoted language teachers will be needed to man and equip these language schools.
Every student who either wishes to take up service or to join university or dcegree classes should be kept at such schools for one to years training before taking up a job or joining degree classes. Type wrinting and stenography, drafting, preparation of reportsw should also be taught to most, if not to all, students in these language schools. Thus and thus alone will the fall in educational standards be checked and all round improvement effected in our education, as in future most, if not all, Indian writers will have been trained in thsese language shools. Incidently, this will improve the language and the qulity of Indian literature which today is suffering from a lot of muddled writhin. Language teaching is the Keynote not only to the teaching of language and literature, but to thea teaching of all subjects of arts and science. In these schools students should not onloy learn to write correctly but also to speak correwctly. Proper accent, correct pronunciation, the culture of the voice for purposes of clear utterance and enunciation should be taught. This done, we can man our services properly and also send to the universities really promising material (from our language schools ) for undergoing the higher courses of learing.