Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan said: “One of the main causes of the backwardness of our society has been the lack of scientific knowledge. It is a happy sign of the times that our intelligentsia has now awakened to the indispensable necessity of scientific knowledge for the development of our country.”

He further said; “One impediment to the widespread knowledge of science in our country has been the absence of suitable provisions for the teaching of science through our national languages.

“Moreover, education imparted through the medium of the mother tongue is far better assimilated than that acquired through a foreign language and, without proper assimilation, education is hardly of any value,” he observed.

Malik Amir Mohammad Khan said: “In this scientific age when human action and thoughts are moulded not by sentiments and emotions but by discoveries of science, it is imperative that teaching of languages should also be scientifically based.” —Staff Correspondent