Field notes, v1753
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Jan. 17 Deschkar feels that improvement in science must start at higher levels - in the colleges. It will later get down to the grade schools. He is very pessimistic about doing much very fast. The Univ. of Delhi stresses graduate work. Around the university are satellite colleges. They are the ones that should be concerned with teaching. To illustrate the poor training of science teachers he told about a recent interview of college teachers for filling positions in chemistry and physics in satellite colleges. The college principal and the chairman of chemistry and physics were present. The latter were shocked to learn that their own teachers had not even read the elementary books in their fields. Delhi Univ., one of the best. Students are selected on the basis of the work and not on other considerations. Students are accepted from any state in India; no so in many universities ... student must be from the state in which the university is located. Deschkar asks, "How can we build Indian citizens this way or citizens of the world?" There are some 40 universities in the country. These are of 3 kinds: (1) Unitary University - both graduate & undergraduate teaching - Banaras is one.