MUSIC AND KDUCATION IN INDIA. 20&

alid various. We have already seen that a proper-
education in music is everywhere recognized as an
invaluable aid in the training of character—the true-
aim of education. But some aspects of the results
may be noted in greater detail. There can be no true-
patriotism without patriotic education. The primary aim
of education in India should be the production of Indian
citizens. No Indian can be a true citizen of the world,,
except by being first an Indian citizen, and from that
standpoint entering into the life of humanity outside of"
India. This, however, is not the time for cosmopolitanism.?,
it is the time when India herself needs Indian citizens; and
education in Indian music is an essential part of education
in Indian citizenship, whether for those who may never-
learn a word of "English or see even a. Raja's brass band
but are more Indian at heart than many of those whose*
false education has brought so much that is vulgar, so much
that is unlovely into the life of modern India, or for those-
whose life-work leads them into other lands, to bear the-
message of the East, or to become intellectual parasites, as
the case may be. In schools, then, Indian folk-music must
be taught as a matter of course—-religious, agricultural and'
craft songs, and songs of the love of the land—not forget-
ting " Bande Mataram. " These songs must be orally
taught, or to a drum or tambnr accompaniment only, not?
to the piano. To older students the really quite simple-
theoretical part of Indian music should be taught, as
European musical theory is taught in European schools.
The restilt of this education in taste will be that, as the-
boys and girls grow up, they will be in a position to under-
stand and care for the most highly developed art-music of"
India-
In almost all cases, it will be found that Oriental art,.