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Report On The Inspection Of Chiefs College 1937PDF 7
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| ithdrawals has exceodod the number of admissions 5 3n1931-32, there wero
eight admissions 98 against 39 withdrawals. Even if, however, the cnrol-
mont were Taised to its high wator-mark of 110 in 1927-28, thir incressed
number would be insufficiont for either tho ecenomical or efficiont organikn-
tion of a school. Good class-teaching is difficnlt ot attainment 5% wide sphere
of tonching soliviliss js beyond tho realm of practical politics ; extra-mural
activities, boting and literary societies and the like are penalised by a poverty
of personnel. The smallor boys must be interminglod with the older boys and
poth alike suffer. Asuitable organisation of games, with these small numbers,
becomes |n impossibility. Tt, for oxamplo, promising small boys are
compolled to play prematurely with the bigger boys, meroly in crder to eupply
the requisite total for the playing of & gaine, they inev ilably tend to become
admirers rather thon players.
4. In commor with other colleges of this typo, admissions aro dopondont
upon social considorations, but Aitchison Collego differs from other such.
institutions in two maiorial respoots :
(a) The College is eonnected moro with British India than with Indian
Statos. There ate now only 21 boys from Indian Stntes 38
against 54 from British India ;
(b) Only olevon boys are sons OF relatives of Ruling Chiofs; of these
seven are from the Simla Hills, whe do not ordinarily attend the
summor sossion. "
Thus, most of the boys attending the College are from among the torritorial
Py
aristocracy of the Punjab, o class which is suffering grievously from economic
depression.
Apart from the -doubt whether, with the continuanco of present con-
ditions, the College will enjoy evon tho limited support which it bas received
in the past. it is at least opon to question whother, sn exclusive and separate
institution is in keeping with the needs of an advancing India. Many families,
which have supported tho College in the past, ate sonding their sons olsowhere”
to school ; it may be that a desire for 4 wider cnvironment has influenced
them in making that decision. It is significant that Rajkumar College,
Raipur. has already takon steps to liberaliso its system of admission ; and
that Rajkumar Colloge, Rajkot, has associated. with itself the Scott College,
which has hitherto eatered for a differont oliontele. ; :
§. Aitchison College is handicapped. by its exclusiveness, not only in its
admission of boys but ‘also in its staff. T understand that, apart from the
Principal and the physicel t1 aining toachet who have rocontly been appointed,
the only member of the staff who has served in another institution is one
whose sorvices were Jont to ancther Chiefs’ Colloge for a single year. Moreover,
only three membors of the staff out of a total ot twelvo have received pro-
ini There is danger that tcaching and other activities wi fall
fessional traimng.- .
into a xub and that masters will remain unaffected by new ideas and by new
methods.
The Principal has already token steps to counteract this defect. Fort-
nightly staff meotings are Now held, when “possibilities of improvement are
digousdod and the progress of cach individual boy reviewed. Class end
subject syllabuses havo also beon prepared, 50 that the exact amount of ground
which each class is expected to covet 36 ot least known, both to the teacher
concerned and to those who will teach the boys ™ succeeding years.
Similarly, preparation syllabuses and time-tables have been carefully prepared
with a view to rogulating the homo-work: of the boys. The Principal also
strives personally to guper vise the class teaching, but not to the extent which
he would desire ‘and which, in mY opinion, is necessary: These innovations
are in the right direction, but it is pertinent to wonder how teaching fared in
the past inthe absence of these essentials in school organisation.
’ ‘Ldo notiagree, however, with my predecessor's suggestion that members
of the staff, who are wntrained, should be de uted for training. After ton or
fifgeen yeaTs of teaching, & man’s powers 0 adaptation have weakened and”
- his habits have pardencd. :