The Hindu : dated April 12, 1953: Curbing "notes"

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dated April 12, 1953: Curbing "notes"

From the Editorials: The Bombay Government has decreed the end of industrious hacks manufacturing "notes" for students on everything under the sun. But the manufacturers of notes may have more lives than the proverbial cat. They are so much entrenched in the affections not merely of the students, but also of the teachers, that an executive ban might find itself reduced to nullity. It might therefore be useful to understand why these things happen. The equipment of many young men coming into the profession of teaching is so poor and their training so perfunctory that, confronted with a piece of original writing, many of them feel totally helpless. To them the author of the vade-mecum is guide, philosopher and friend. And the use of cribs by children is not merely tolerated, it is expected: "notes", note-books, and a long distance behind, books — that is the order of importance of the apparatus of learning. Recruitment of better qualified men and the imparting of adequate training to them can alone remedy the situation. The Secondary Education Commission will, one hopes, be able to suggest ways and means. Even money, hard enough to find as it is, may not be so formidable a difficulty as the fixed belief in influential quarters that educating the nation can be done on the cheap.

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