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Shri. Vamanrao Apte Shri. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Shri. Vishnushastri Chiplunkar

Shri. Lokmanya Bal Shri. Mahadeo Balal Namjoshi
Gangadhar Tilak

The Deccan Education Society (DES) In the view of the founders, ‘Education
was established in the year 1884 and was was the means of rousing the intellect, the
registered on 13th August 1885 by five drooping will and the slumbering conscience
towering personalities of the Indian freedom of their fallen countrymen’. At a time when
struggle - Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the concept of democratic practice was just
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Vishnu Shastri being conceived in India, DES decided to
Chiplunkar, Mahadeo Ballal Namjoshi, and adopt the democratic structure for its own
Vamanrao Apte. In the pre-independence era, governance. Thus, it became a model for
these visionaries realized that the education teacher-managed institutes in Maharashtra
system which prevailed in India under the and symbolized the ‘People’s Own Initiative’
rule of the Britishers was to create products in evolving education as a means of national
only to serve the Britishers. The system did regeneration.
not teach the people to question, criticize,
create, and reflect their thoughts. It was simply
a system that perpetrated the slave mentality.
Hence the common mission for establishing
DES was to reverse the then existing scenario
and give rise to a progressive mindset.

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