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

28 NATIONAL EDUCATION
specialism at the top. This is to base
the Triangle on its apex and hope that
it will stand.
The old system was to teach one
or two subjects well and thoroughly
and then proceed to others, and cer-
tainly it was a more rational system
than the modern. If it did not impart
so much varied information, it built up
a deeper, nobler and more real culture.
Much of the shallowness, discursive
lightness and fickle mutability of the
average modern mind is due to the
vicious principle of teaching by snip-
pets. The one defect that can be
alleged against the old system was that
the subject earliest learned might fade
from the mind of the student while he
was mastering his later studies. But
the excellent training given to the
memory by the ancients obviated the
incidence of this defect. In the future