Indian Education

Haing few of the prejudices and being free from the stiffness of the ordinary English traveller and possessing the curiosity of the true philosopher he got the utmost enjoyment and instruction from his long journeys which embraced most of the civilized and a goodly portion of the savage parts of the world. [...] Fisher however has been able to secure a pledge from the Cabinet that his prposals in their new form shall have priority in the programing of the coming Session of Parliament and he has explained to the public that the device of recasting the Bill in private has been adopted with the sole object of saving the time of the House of Commons. [...] It may be said indeed that the proposed schools of the first grade will have some of the features of universities since their courses of study in the upper forms will be of a specialist character and the method of work will approximate to that of Universities the pupils being encouraged to study on independent lines under the guidance of teachers holding special qualifications in the various su [...] On the question of transfer from one school to another the Board express the view that this will be essential if the benefits of " advance courses" are to be brought within the reach of all classes of the community and all parts of the country. [...] Unfortunately for them or rather for the Gujarati Hindus in the concussion which naturally and necessarily followed in the wake of the clash between the East and the West the Parsis were so much dazzled by the latter that they forgot among other things the imperative requirments of language and have come themselves to suffer from the resultant disadvantages and unintentionally to make the Hi