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SAI International School
                                                       Session-2020-21
                                                           Class- VIII
                                                       Subject- History
                                     Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation
                                   Sub Topic : What happened to the local school
                                                             NOTES


               What happened
               to the local          What happened to the Local Schools :
               school
                                     In the 1830s William Adam, a Scottish missionary toured the districts of
                                     Bengal and Bihar and was given charge by the company. To give report on
                                     the progress of education in vernacular schools.

                                     Adam found that the system of education was flexible and local schools
                                     were known as pathshalas.

                                     There were no fixed fee, no printed books, no separate school building, no
                                     benches or chairs, no blackboards, no system of separate classes, no roll-
                                     call registers, no annual examinations and no regular time-table. Fee
                                     depended on the income of parents : the rich had to pay more than the
                                     poor.

                                     Classes were usually held under a Banyan tree or in the corner of a village
                                     shop, in temple or at the guru’s home.

                                     Teaching process was oral and the guru decided what to teach , in
                                     accordance with the needs of the students.

                                     The guru interacted separately with groups of children with different levels
                                     of learning.

               New Routines          After 1854 the company decided to improve the system of vernacular
               and New Rules         education by introducing order within the system, imposing routines,
                                     establishing rules, ensuring regular inspections.

                                     Company appointed a number of government pandits each in charge of
                                     looking after four to five schools.

                                     Teaching was now to be based on textbooks and learning was to be tested
                                     through a system of annual examination.

                                     Students to pay a regular fee asked to attend regular classes, sit on fixed
                                     seats and obey the new rules of discipline.

                                     Those Pathshalas which accepted the new rules were supported through
                                     government grants.

                                     New rules had some consequences, students have to attend school
                                     regularly even during harvest time. Inability to attend school seen as
                                     indiscipline and as evidence of the lack of desire to learn.
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