Page:Indian Journal of Economics Volume 2.djvu/567

 ECONOMIC PBOBLEM$ OP INDIA departre. cuts with the Ill-advised to maintain colleges than meddling into a much closer connection they usually do at present. village and cty conditions, and masses of ill-assimilated information based on superficial complete investigations, or else a relapse into a com induced by the bewilderment due to the absence of the comforting paternal direction of a prescribed text book, would be the result in many cases, unless the university department gave to the college department more frequent inspection and co-operation. Such a relation is surely not impossible! A' further objection which would be urged in North India at leat is that in the first or second ear in arts the sufficient Graduates to student's for him of some knowledge of to understand years standing English is not economic theory. have commented me u'pon the decreasing knowledge of English amongst the students. They place the responsibility upon the fact that amongst themselves students do not customarily speak English, even around the ollege buildings. This is a natural outcome of the nationalist movement, with its emphasis upon the vernaculars. Personally I think part of the blame ca be placed upon the English courses. When a university will put Rip ]z Wink upon both the Matriculation and B..A. curricula, and demand that Indian B Scotch dialect and the Francisco Chinaman--the is not wholly upon the should understand of a San for failures student8 pidgin English responsibility luckless student, or the still more unfortunate teacher. However, admitting the fact, I do not regard the the second difficulty. deficiencies of an insuperable advantage. It year student's English as Indeed there is one great will compel the lecturer to 'abandOn' complete dependence upon the dictation of notes, and to resort to a practical teaching of theory. For