Quote#Education
The curriculum of the girl’s school should be vernacular, needlework…
Quote byBal Gangadhar Tilak · 1856–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: His opposition to teaching women in English..
English (original)
The curriculum of the girl’s school should be vernacular, needlework and sanitation...teaching women amounted to the loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanizing impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life...hurt the sentiments of the Hindus…teaching Hindu women to read English would ruin their precious traditional virtues and would make them immoral and subordinate.
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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