Match the following: i. William Jones a. Promotion of English education ii. Rabindranath Tagore b. Respect for ancient cultures iii. Thomas Macaulay c. Gurus iv. Mahatma Gandhi d. Learning in a natural environment v. Pathshalas e. Critical of English education

Social Science- Our Pasts III- Part-II

Book: Social Science- Our Pasts III- Part-II

Chapter: 8. Civilising the "Native', Educating the Nation

Subject: Social Science - Class 8^th

Q. No. 1 of Let's Recall

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Match the following:

i. William Jones

a. Promotion of English education

ii. Rabindranath Tagore

b. Respect for ancient cultures

iii. Thomas Macaulay

c. Gurus

iv. Mahatma Gandhi

d. Learning in a natural environment

v. Pathshalas

e. Critical of English education

William Jones – Respect for ancient cultures

Rabindranath Tagore – Learning in a natural environment

Thomas Macaulay – Promotion of English education

Mahatma Gandhi – Critic of English education

Pathshalas - Gurus

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Chapter Exercises

Let's Recall

Let's Discuss

1

Match the following:

i. William Jones

a. Promotion of English education

ii. Rabindranath Tagore

b. Respect for ancient cultures

iii. Thomas Macaulay

c. Gurus

iv. Mahatma Gandhi

d. Learning in a natural environment

v. Pathshalas

e. Critical of English education

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State whether True or False:
(a) James Mill was a severe critic of the Orientalists.

(b) The 1854 Dispatch on education was in favour of English being introduced as a medium of higher education in India.

(c) Mahatma Gandhi thought that promotion of literacy was the most important aim of education.

(d) Rabindranath Tagore felt that children ought to be subjected to strict discipline.