Indian Education

The collectivist argument in favour of State action on behalf of the suffering and the poor may be irresistible if it is accompanied by a demand for discipline and interference in the case of the neglectful the ignorant or the morally perverse.' But the danger in Englan c1 at the present time is of our taking all the cos/aside of collectivism and omitting all its discipline. [...] The history of the connection between the higher educational work of the county councils and the consumption of spirits shows how precarious at a critical point - were the fortunes of the new movement for the extension of secondary and technical education in England. [...] The next step was that the managers of one of the Swansea voluntary ssiapoIs (the Oxford Street school) appealed to the Board of EduCtion tairequire the local authority to increase the salaries paid to the voluntary tthool teachers on the ground that at the existing rate it was not perssible to retain or secure the services of teachers who would keep the Achool efficient and therefore eligible fo [...] `. The _habits of the Indianboys depend upenkthe aboire-mentioned circumstances and until something is done to better their circumstanc:s the educational reformers need not hope for the cure of the cram disease ; and until the pecuniary circumstances of the Government improve it is useless to talk of purging the educational system of those evils which are surely eatinginto the heart of the pres [...] These methods are not even used as adjuncts in the schools of the Islands of the Blest for it is held that the only reasotable way of inculcating the theory of Morality is by means of the unconscious bias received through the study of stories of noble deeds of stirring prose and poetry of Science and of History.