राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा प्रणाली एवं भारतीय मानस (श्री अरविन्द - एकात्म शिक्षा दर्शन)

SUCCESSIVE TEACHING. 29 Education we need not bind ourselves either by the ancient or the modern system, but select only the most per- fect and rapid means of mastering knowledge. In defence of modern system it is alleged that the attention of children is easily tired and cannot be subjected to the strain of long application to a single subject. The frequent changes of subject gives rest to the mind. The question naturally arises: are the child- ren of modern times then so different from the ancients, and, if so, have we not made them so by discouraging prolonged concentration ? A very young child cannot, indeed apply him- self; but a very young child is unfit for School teaching of any kind. A child of seven or eight, and that is the earliest permissible age for the com- mencement of any regular kind of