FOREWORD.
I deem it a great privilege to be given the opportunity of writing this short foreword to this valuable contribution of school books by my esteemned and learned friend and colleague, M.R. Ry., 1. Seshadri Sarma Garu, Senior Telugu Pandit, Municipal High School, Cuddapah. While I am aware of my limitations in the discharge of this pleasing work, I feel I must respond to the call when it comes from such a distinguished Telugu scholar and author as my friend is.
It is now universally racognised that the true aim and object of all education is to draw out what is best and noblest in the pupils, and to enable them to grow into useful and enlightened citizens of the State. This laudable ideal iş im. possible of achievement unless our educational institutions inspire the young with lofty aims and high ideals, and foster in them healthy habits of life, and take incessant and sedulous care to mould their character which is the sheet-anchor of life: and without which no high or useful purpose can be accomplished in life. Among the influences that silently act on the formation of the character of the young, undoubtedly, that of the home comes first, next to it, and perhaps, more effective, is that of the school where various and varied organised opportunities and (activities) exist, designed to promote this process of character-building. The most potent of these is the facilities which schools afford for pupils to cultivate and form friendships and associations with their fellows and teachers, which sometimes, last during a whole life-time The value, and usefulness of such “Sangas" or
