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Unit 13: Policy Perspectives on Teacher Education: University Education Commission

(x) The universities have to provide leadership in politics, administration, education, Notes
industry and commerce.
(xi) The universities should be organized as centres of civilization to train intellectual
pioneers of civilization. The aim of university education should be to produce intellectual
adventures.
(xii) Universities should produce such wise persons who may disseminate learning to make
democracy successful and who may make an incessant search for new knowledge and
unceasing effort to fulfil the mission of life.
(xiii) One of the main functions of universities is to bring about the spiritual development of
students.
(xiv) We are engaged in a quest for democracy through the realization of justice, freedom,
equality and fraternity. Hence, it is necessary that our universities should be the emblems
and protectors of these ideals.
(xv) Contents of education must accept the best of what the modern advancement has to
offer without neglecting our cultural heritage from the past.
(xvi) Education should discover the innate qualities of a person and develop them through
training.
(xvii) Universities should preserve the culture and civilization of the country. To be civilized,
we should sympathies with the poor, respect women, love peace and independence,
and hate tyranny and injustice. The university education should infuse these ideals into
the youths.

The University has to make new discoveries and inventions and it has to develop new
original ideas in order to make the society strong.

13.3 Recommendations of University Education Commission about
Teacher Education

Standards of Teaching: Our high school and intermediate standards are undoubtedly low, and in
order to improve them we should not only exact a higher standards in these examinations but
also considerably improve our teaching. We can not raise examinations standards unless we
improve the quality of teaching first.
The school teachers are so ill paid that generally only those graduates who fail to enter any other
profession take to teaching as a last resort. Very few school teachers have a call for or take pride
in their profession. Secondary education can only improve if a large number of first rate
graduates become school masters. While university standards cannot improve unless the quality
of teaching in schools and intermediate colleges improves, it is for the universities to provide a
continuous supply of highly trained and efficient teachers for these institutions.
In India, the average standard of scholarship among school teachers is so low that they seldom
qualify to become university teachers. If we are to raise the overall standards of attainment of
our school teachers, there is no reason why there should not be larger percentage of teachers
from our schools selected for teaching in our colleges and universities. The real need is to be
able to offer salaries and prospects which will attract persons of first class ability for our schools.
Refresher courses for high school and intermediate college teachers: An urgent reform is the
institution of vacation refresher courses for high school and intermediate college teachers. At
present neither students nor teachers utilize their vacation. For most of them vacation is a period
of want of occupation. Most of our school teachers do not keep intellectually alive, and there is
little inducement for them to do so. In India teachers' association, where ever they exist, are

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