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Report On The Inspection Of Chiefs College 1937PDF 12
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which the college caters is financially speaking ina bad way; unless thcse
boys sre provided with sound instruction in tho college, their stay in the
institution is bound to be o handicep to thom rather than a help. Tho
Diploma ccwse of the Collcgc is not of a sufficiently high standard to enabld
the studonts to compete in public examinations ror Government service or
an Army career. Thedaysct nomination to the superior services are gradually
disappearing and the students of the College arc thercforc faced with
the prespect of jcining the army of the unemployed after having received
an cxpensive but insufficient measu.e of instruction. The totel numbex
ot boys whoappooied from Aitchison College in the Diploma Examinatish
during the last 44 e018 is 399, of whom only 261 have ;.assed but not a single
student has bcen placed in the first division. Tho result of 1932-33 remains
unsatisfactory 28 only 9 candidates out of 21 wero successful in passing the
Diploma Exarhination, The pcorer familics of the landed ecntiy class prefer
{o send thuir boys to Govetnment Cclleges o1 other aided institr.tions where,
though they cannot have the privilege cf associating exclusively with boys
of theiz own class, they will at least be given insteuction onibling them to
compete on equal terms with others. The popularity of the institution has
therefore been gicotly impairea and the immediate necessity, if the institu-
tion is to survive, is to induce students to come, but students will not come
unl.ss the education given in the Ccllege meets with their requiements in
future lito. The emphasis laid on othcr mattcrs ct special intercst to tho Chiefs
like law and administration which are included in the curriculum for higher
classes in Mayo Cellcgo, Ajmer, should be oxwa. The fact that the boyd
come from aristocrotic familics sho.Jd mean that they have sdditional
interests and not that thoy require less knowledge.
(8) The cost of educntion at the College scems to mo very disproportion-
ate. Infact, the expenscs at Aitchison College appcar to be evor more
{hap the normal expenditure at a good public school in England. No doubt
some cf the boys con afford it but most cannot, and this is aleo & potent factor
inreducing the number on therolls. Evenin the case of those whocan afferd
it, it seoms to be unwise to encourage boys inexponsive ways, for unless strict
disciplino and contro! of oxpendituro is maintained in early years, habits of
extravagance, Inxury, and lack of proportion in value would result in most
casos. In the case of poorer membors of tho aristocracy oxpensivo habits of
magnificence, which they would falscly consider as boing nccessary to their
class, 10 still more regrottable. The presont cost to parents for each boy
roughly comes to about Rs, 2,500 per annum.
(4) Tho communal mess arrangoments how in vogue are admittedly bad,
as the aristocracy has no justification for encouraging that kind of narrow-
mindedness. Of course, it is difficult to change the systom immediately, but
tho gradual climination of tho communal megs system should bo attempted
by establishing ab loast one cheaper hostel for all communities and oncouraging
atudonts to join it.
(5) Tho lack of community of interests betwoon tho Collego staff and tho
students is a point of vital importance. At the prosont timo tho staff consists
of Englishmen and Indians. Wo may leavo tho English staff aside, but sé
far as the Indian soction'is concorned if cannot be deniod that the selection of
masters is not from the samo class as that from which’ tho school boys aro
roernited. In tho public schools and othor aristocratic institutions olsewhore
this is a point on which great omphasis is Inid. A mastor at Eton comes
gonorally from the samo sooial olass as his pupils, and unless this is donc thero
will always be a tendency to sycophancy and flattory. 1 submit that o
definite offort should now bo mado to recruit the masters from the landed.
aristocracy and I do not foel that thero need be much diffienlty in tho matter.
As to the English staff, it is a pity that the Collogo aythoritivs have now
retrenched ono English master owing to financial stringency as oducation
in consequence of this is bound to deteriorate: There should be a larger
English staff than at presont if the officioncy ofthe Colloge is to ho maintained
and its tone raised to tho level of a really fitst-clags public scliool ; besidos,
Chiefs dv not sedm to bo inelined 10 sond’thoir rdlitives'to an institution;
which is not adequately staffed by English masters.