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

30 NATIONAL EDUCATION study, is capable of a good deal of concentration if he is interested. Interest is after all, the basis of con- centration. We make his lessons supremely uninteresting and repellent to the child, a harsh compulsion the basis of teaching and then complain of his restless inattention ! The substitu- tion of a natural self-Education by the child for the present unnatural system will remove this objection of inability. A child, like a man, if he is interest- ed, much prefers to get to the end of his subject rather than leave it unfi- nished. To lead him on step by step, interesting and absorbing him in each as it comes, until he has mastered his subject is the true art of teaching. The first attention of the teacher must be given to the medium and the instruments, and, until these are per- fected, to multiply subjects of regular