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Consider the following statements about the Wood’s Despatch (1854):

1. It asked the Government of India to assume responsibility for the education of the masses.

2. It recommended English as the medium of instruction for higher studies and vernaculars at the school level.

3. It laid stress on female and vocational education.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

1 and 3 only

2 and 3 only

1 and 2 only

1, 2 and 3

Explanation:

Explanation:
Wood’s Despatch (1854): In 1854, Charles Wood prepared a ‘Despatch’ on an educational system for India.

1. It asked the Government of India to assume responsibility for the education of the masses, thus repudiating the ‘Downward Filtration Theory’, at least on paper.

2. It systematised the hierarchy from the Vernacular Primary Schools in the villages at the bottom, followed by the Anglo-Vernacular High Schools and an affiliated college at the district level, and affiliating the universities in the Presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

3. It recommended English as the medium of instruction for higher studies and vernaculars at the school level.

4. It laid stress on female and vocational education, and on teachers’ training.