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Lahore, Friday, February 23, 1917

Political Education

IN England there is a strong feeling that students in advanced classes should be given some training in politics and taught the duties of citizenship.



IN England there is a strong feeling that students in advanced classes should be given some training in politics and taught the duties of citizenship. After the war the new ideal of education will be adopted with political as well as military training for boys a year or two before their leaving the school. Is it not reasonable that a similar arrangement should be made for the benefit of Indian students? We are sorry to find a repressive tendency among officials. Only the other day a mixed committee of officials and non-officials sat at Nagpur to consider the Chief Commissioner’s wishes to prohibit school boys from attending political meetings. It was suggested that no school boy should attend political meetings during his term time without the permission of the headmaster. Such a drastic prohibition cannot but create a feeling of distrust and doubt.

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