Indian Education

In the former what has to be dOne is to adjust the course of studies and the methods of teaching in the middle secondary schools to those of the elementary schools and to make the passage at twelve years of age from the public elementary or inspected private school to the middle secondary school easy natural and intellectually profitable.. [...] Butler has won the admiration of the leaders of Education in England and has done much to advance the interests of our primary and secondary schools and of our Universities by the dignity the insight and the eloquence of the addresses which he has delivered in London Manchester and Oxford. [...] To my mind the latter is not so important as the former for whatever of evil is feit to exist in the Lower Secondary Currculum seems to me to be due to the evils of the absence of a vernacular medium and to the fact that the text-book medium in these classes is English. [...] The greatest root of the superstitions of our people is the want of the capability to realise the relation between the cause and effect of things and nothing can aid in the dispelling of such superstitions more than elementary Science and :Geometry properly taught; the same applies to everything that is taught and may be taught to the Lower Secondary Classes. [...] S. as the Director of Public Instruction in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh that failing a competent member of the Educational Service qualified for the oust of Director of Public Instruction in any province the Educational Departments of other provinces are to be indented upon before the appointment can be given to a member of the Indian Civil Service ; and is the rule laid down in the Mi