Question

When was the National Council of Education setup?
A. 1905
B. 1906
C. 1908
D. 1910

Answer 1

Hint: The main aim of the National Education Council was to provide education under national control and on national lines. Teachers were national, the curriculum was national, focused on national cultural heritage and targeted in all directions, economic, moral and material, towards national growth.

Complete answer:
The National Education Council - Bengal (or NCE - Bengal) was an organisation founded in Bengal by Satish Chandra Mukherjee and other Indian nationalists.
Nationalists perceived the current education system as insufficient. In Kolkata, a National College was opened with Aurobindo Ghose as Principal.

Now let's look at the options:-
1. A meeting on Park Street was organised by the Landholders Society on 10 December 1905, attended by approximately 1,500 delegates. The National Council of Education's proposal was mooted here.Therefore this is an incorrect option.
2. As part of the Swadeshi industrialisation movement, the National Council of Education - Bengal (or NCE - Bengal) was established in Bengal in 1906 to promote science and technology. So it is the correct option.
3. In 1908, in Bengal, 25 secondary and 300 national primary schools were founded, providing literary, technical and physical education. So it is an incorrect option.
4. The Bengal Partition was revoked in 1910 and the British empire's capital in India was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi. The heat and emotion created by the partition of Bengal was over. Thus the national political movement waned after 1910 and the national education movement also declined with it. So it is an incorrect option.

Hence the correct answer is option B.

Note: The main purpose of the council was to provide education on national lines and under national control. Teachers were national, curriculum was national, based on national cultural heritage and aimed at national development in all directions—economic, moral and material.