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

SUCCESSIVE TEACHING 31
instruction is to waste time and energy.
When the mental instruments are
sufficiently developed to acquire a
language easily and swiftly, that is the
time to introduce him to many langu-
ages, not when he can only partially
understand what he is taught and
masters it laboriously and imperfectly.
Moreover, one who has mastered his
own language, has one very necessary
facility for mastering another. With
the linguistic faculty unsatisfactorily
developed in one's own tongue, to
master others is impossible. To study
Science with the faculties of observa-
tion, judgment, reasoning, and compari-
son only slightly developed, is to
undertake a useless and thankless
labour. So it is with all other subjects.
The mother-tongue is the proper
medium of Education and therefore
the first energies of the child should