Section 52 in Tamil Nadu Educational Inspection Code
52. Duties of Inspecting Officers in the matter of character training.
- Inspecting Officers shall take every opportunity to impress on managers, teachers and pupils, the inexpediency and danger of sacrificing character training to more intellectual instructions. To this end, every Inspecting Officer is expected to be thoroughly conversant with the several new measures introduced in schools in such respects as citizenship training, craft and manual activities, and extracurricular activities in general, new methods of teaching like audio-visual methods and sufficiently adequate and varied physical education activities for all pupils and the provision of playground material and instructional facilities for all these matters and be constantly assessing the extent to which all the educational requirements are fulfilled by every school. They should not only inspect the drill and games of individual schools but in all towns and large villages containing a number of schools, they should advise the managers and masters to arrange for holding competitions in games and sports and for organising play days and play festivals. District Educational Officers are generally called upon to take a leading part in the organisation and functioning of District Sports Associations and should, therefore be prepared and equipped to be of real assistance to the bodies. Wherever such organisations exist in Girls Schools, Inspectresses are also expected to function in the same way.
