Himalayan Times (1960)

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June 5, 1900

if lomi kind of training
facilities are provided for
the younger teachers.

India is a country
whore a very large num-
ber of university teachers
are needed and it it for
con si d( ration whether
some training should not
be provided for them.
Apart from individual
reading and training in
a particular subjoct, I
would recommend three
classes of lectures: (1)
Goueral principle of uni.
versity teaching; (2) the
preparation of" lectures
and methods of instruc-
tion; (3) how to deal with
student*

The fourth suggestion
I would make ie regard-
ing the ezohange of pro-
fessors and students. This
applies more in the case
of students than in the
case of teaohers. In Ger-
man universities, parti-
cularly in the case of
Ph.D. students, it is ex-
tremely easy for a student
ot one university to mi-
grate for a time to ano-
ther university and do
some work under another
professor.

, Apart from students,
attention must also be
given to the exchange of
professors. In most uni-
versities today the tea-
ching work is so heavy,
that, after a few years,
lecturers and readers
would welcome a Sabba
tioa) year of rest and

study, during whioh they
could do refresher courses.
As most oolleges and
universities are unable to
afford, their teachers the
luxury of a Sabbatical
year, I suggest that an
alternative soheme be
formulated, whereby pro-
fessors in a certain uni-
versity oould bo exchanged
with their counterparts
in other parts of the
oountry This oan be
done meet usefully in
subjects like Economics.

Although not so fa-
vourable to the teaoher
a* the Sabbatical year,
this system would relieve
the monotony of lecturing
on the same syl abus to
the same classes in the
same atmosphere. The
change may brim baok
to lite a spark whioh may
lead to fresh thought and
an original approerh to
old problems. The finan-
cial problem oould be sol-
ved by providing that
each university should
pay its own teaoher as
if he were doing hit nor-
mal duty.

The fifth suggestion
relates to co-curricular
activities. A number of
universities realize the
importance of debates,
dramatics, musical clubs
and athlectios; but atten-
tion is not given to art
as such. I think the time
has come to give stu
dents the chance to do
painting, olassical musio

and the plastic arts.
Apart from the regular
university courses in these
subjects, if any, provision
for developing one of the
arts as a hobby should
also be made. Our life
in the modern world tends
to become monotonus in
the extreme, we have no
time for the appreciation
of beauty and art and
for self-expression. If a
university arte club could
be promoted, it would
greatly help students to
develop their inborn ta-
lents, and they might
begin to express them-
selves joyfully in song,
dance, painting and sculp-
ture.

Some students have
au excess of animal vi-
gour and may like to
play games; others may
want to express their inner
emotions through art and
music, poetry and drama;
some others msy want to
play about in a meehaoi
oal workshop or do car-
pentry or indulge in a
manual oraft like book-
binding. It is up to tb*
university authorities to
gives these ttudente the
widest opportunities in
this respect

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