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Dr.P.C.RAY |
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in Education Prafulla Chandra's early education started in his father's village school. But he often stayed away from school. His teacher, while making a search for the truant in almost every house in the village, would find the culprit resting comfortably on the branch of a tree, hidden under its leaves! In 1870 Harish Chandra moved his family to Calcutta so that his sons could have higher education. Here, Prafulla Chandra was admitted to the Hare School. He took a great interest in books and read a vast number of them. But a severe attack of dysentery forced him to leave the school. The disease was slowly overcome, but it permanently injured his health; he became a life-long sufferer from chronicindigestion and sleeplessness. In his later days he sometimes thought of this as a blessing in disguise. For the rest of his life he was very strict about his food; and he had regular exercises. Prafulla was now free from the tyranny of the dreary school routine;
so he found time to satisfy his passion for the study of English and Bengali literatures.
When barely ten years old, he learnt Latin and Greek (Languages of ancient Europe). He
also studied the histories of Ehgland, Rome and Spain. |
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