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

SUCCESSIVE TEACHING 31 instruction is to waste time and energy. When the mental instruments are sufficiently developed to acquire a language easily and swiftly, that is the time to introduce him to many langu- ages, not when he can only partially understand what he is taught and masters it laboriously and imperfectly. Moreover, one who has mastered his own language, has one very necessary facility for mastering another. With the linguistic faculty unsatisfactorily developed in one's own tongue, to master others is impossible. To study Science with the faculties of observa- tion, judgment, reasoning, and compari- son only slightly developed, is to undertake a useless and thankless labour. So it is with all other subjects. The mother-tongue is the proper medium of Education and therefore the first energies of the child should