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

30 NATIONAL EDUCATION
study, is capable of a good deal of
concentration if he is interested.
Interest is after all, the basis of con-
centration. We make his lessons
supremely uninteresting and repellent
to the child, a harsh compulsion the
basis of teaching and then complain of
his restless inattention ! The substitu-
tion of a natural self-Education by the
child for the present unnatural system
will remove this objection of inability.
A child, like a man, if he is interest-
ed, much prefers to get to the end of
his subject rather than leave it unfi-
nished. To lead him on step by step,
interesting and absorbing him in each
as it comes, until he has mastered his
subject is the true art of teaching.
The first attention of the teacher
must be given to the medium and the
instruments, and, until these are per-
fected, to multiply subjects of regular