2. BORN : 25 oct 1800
PLACE : LIECESTERSHIRE ENGLAND
EDUCATION : LAW DEGREE FROM
TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
3. Macaulay was Secretary to the Board of
Control under Lord Grey from 1832 until 1833
After passing of GOVERNMENT INDIA ACT
1833 he resigned as MP for Leeds and was
appointed as the first Law Member of
the Governor-General's Council. He went to
India in 1834, and served on the Supreme
Council of India between 1834 and 1838.
4. Father of education
He completely change the education system of
India.
Macaulay argued that Western learning was
superior over Indian.
So, according to him there was a need to produce:
"A class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but
English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in
intellect.“
It not only enforced the use of English language as
a medium of education across India, but created a
divide between the English educated elites and the
Hindi medium types.
5. He thought of changing the educational system
in India. British India was in need of people who
can do clerical jobs.
So Macaulay proposed an educational system
where Indian students are taught in medium of
English as well as introduced to westernization.
This what he said ”We must at present do our
best to form a class who may be interpreters
between us and the millions whom we govern; a
class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but
English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in
intellect.
6. The Indian Education Act passed
English becomes the language
of instruction.
English as the language of administration
and of the higher law courts
(replacing Persian),
This led eventually to English becoming one
of the languages of India, rather than simply
the native tongue of its foreign rulers.
7.
8. British officials asked Macaulay to present
some facts about the education system of
India and these facts are enough to prove
that India was only country to hold these
facts in the world.
Macaulay said that in India there is complete
literacy among people.
In figures he said in south India 100%, west
India 98%, east India 82%, central India and
north India 87%.
9. In between one of the British official
stood up and asked that what is the
literacy rate of England?
The education minister at that time said that
all over England there is less than 17%
literacy as compared to India.
10. Macaulay also said that there are schools present
in every village of India names as Gurukul.
Macaulay briefly explained about the remarkable
monitorial system of education which says that in
one Gurukul the main teacher teaches the student
of highest class and the students will teach to their
juniors and the juniors will teach their juniors and so
on.,
simply meaning that with one teacher all the
students are being taught by the monitorial system.
Macaulay also said that in south India there are
58% girls and 42% boys in schools.
11. Macaulay Said That There Are 18 Subject Taught In The
Guru Kul Of India. The Most Taught Subject In India Is
Ganit(Mathematics),Then Khagol Shastra(Astronomical
Science),Dhatu Vigyan(Metallurgy),Karigiri(Architectural
Science),Bhautik Shastra(astro physics),rasayan
Shastra(chemistry),chikitsa Shastra(medical science).
Macaulay also explained that students enter in Gurukul at
the age of 5 years and they came out at 22 years of age.
The subjects are taught one by one which means that
ganit is being taught for whole the year so that the
students can concentrate o only one subject at a time.
12. Then the question arised about the examination,
Macaulay said that there is no examination system
in India and the students are judged by the practical
evaluation of the subject which means the work
related to the subject is given to the students and
they are judged according to their talent and they
do not practice the theory of cramming the book for
whole year and writing the examination in 3 hours.
Macaulay was asked about the conditioning of
England, then he replied that “there are only 240
schools in England and mathematics in not taught
in the school but only the bible is being taught.
13. It is very strange in knowing the facts about
the England that there were no schools
present till 16th century.
Macaulay said that there are 15.800 higher
studies center in India like takshsila,
nalanda.
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14. William Adam says in addition of Macaulay’s
report that there exist a guru Kul which is
from 12th century near Vishakhapatnam
which excels in civil engineering in which
students had built the first dam on Cauvery
river which has stone with engraved year of
1238 on it.
15. After all these discussions over 7 days in house
of lords ,British official said that if we want to
rule over India then we have to instruct our
government which is in India to close all these
gurukuls by proving them illegal.
British decided to implement a law that is Indian
education act which made the rule that
wherever there is education given in regional
language is illegal according to the act.
16. Macaulay liberated the use of English
language in every Gurukul and criticized
the Gurukuls of India.
Britishers destroyed the Gurukul, the
guruKul were set to fire, Teachers of
GuruKul Were Killed.
This Scene Continued From 1840 To 1940
Which Fully Changed The Education
System Of India And Destroyed It.