Indian Education Quotes
This quotation is fascinating but sad. In 1902, Aga Kahn III and other Muslim reformers gathered to improve the terrible state of Muslim education. Muslims could attend the English operated public schools which were excellent, but the Imams fought these schools as they were purely secular and not under their control. Yet the Madrassas religious schools that then existed taught by rote and only Islamic religious content—no mathematics, science, other literature, art or anything else. Much of the teaching was religiously extreme with not even modern religious content. Over a century later the Schools of Pakistan—the Islamic nation carved out of India and those of most of the Arab nations are little better and despite a century of progress, the curriculum is the same.
Toward the end of the 20th century, some people argued that using Indian names or identifying a school or sport team as “Braves” or “Indians” is inappropriate. Dartmouth, however has some claim, like the Carlisle Indians, to the Dartmouth Indians name given its history.
