Indian Education

A nd in the measure upon which the sense of the country will be taken at the General Election the category of Money Bills is sc defined that it could be easily made to include one which would revolutionise the relation of the State to the whole of the denominational schools. [...] In other words if the result of the General Election is the return of the present Government to power with a majority sufficient to enable them to carry Lheir Parliament Bill in its present form the main guarantee for the continuance of the present system of management of two-thirds of the public elementary schools in England will have disappeared. [...] " (4) No amendment shall be allowed to a Money Bill which in the opinion of the Speaker of the House of Commons is such as to prevent the Bill retaining the ch tracter of a Money Bill." Any certificate of the Speaker of the House of Commons given under the Act is to be conclusive for all purposes and not allowed to be questioned in any Court of law. [...] A survey of institutions of this type in the past will serve to convince the most sympathetic critic of the Academy of the utter futility of attempts in this direction One might instance some of the earliest Academies known to history the coteries of Mediaeval Italy which only served to form bands of interested friends stifling the slightest exhibition of Literary genius outside their ranks. [...] As soon as you have succeeded in giving them a clear mental picture of the scene :repeat the verbs of the lesson in English and you will see by the look of intelligence on the faces of your pupils that the simple enunciation of the actions has enabled them to reach the whole scene.