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constructive character of much of the education given
in Indian schools and colleges is being recognized, but
so slowly that it is an open question whether any part
of the old structure can be saved, to witness that the
ancient builders builded well.

Take music as a single case. The importance of music
in education could hardly be over-estimated.

tb Is not," says Plato, ""education in music of the greatest
importance, because that the measure and harmony enter in the
strongest manner into the inward part of the soul....The man who
hath here been educated as he ought, perceives in the quickest
manner whatever workmanship is defective, and whatever execu-
tion is unhandsome, or whatever productions are of that kind ; and
being disgusted in a proper manner, he will praise what is beauti-
ful, rejoicing in it and receiving it into his soul, be nourished by
it, and become a worthy and good man....Education in music is
for the sake of such things as these "

These words a modern Welsh writer does but echo
when he says :

" Rightly studied, music has all the exactness of pure reason
and science, all the expatisiveness of the imaginative reason, all the
metaphysie of the profoundest philosophy, and all the ethic of the
purest religion in it....It is an energy of the mind in the first
instance, and is of incalculable advantage in obtaining dominion
over the body....Music, properly taught, includes all that is
generally conceded to belong to a liberal education."*

These ideas are far more clearly recognizable in Indian
than in English culture. But English education, a&
hitherto imparted and understood in India, has totally
ignored the importance, of music and art in education.
There is in India no educational institution under Euro-
pean guidance where Indian music has any place whatever
in the scheme of education. There is no Indian university
where Indian music is recognized. Of Europeans engaged
in education in India, it is safe to say tha,t not 1 per cent,
have any knowledge of Indian music as a science, or

* D. Frangcon Davies, in * Wales To-day and To-morrow'
(1907,)

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