Indian Education

The grant will cover the fees and will also go some wad towards meeting the living expenses of the year of training. Hitherto one of the chief difficulties in the way of developing the professional training of secondary school teachers has been that a Young man or woman at the cal of a University career found it ipossible to undertake the cost of 011 additional year of stitch. Still more imp [...] The increasing scope of women's work and the wider range of occupations open to them as the result of the war will probably lessen the supply of women teachers and then the principle of equal pay will be adopted. [...] The originator and guiding spirit of this Commission was none other than the strong personality of the then Viceroy—Lord Curzon of Kedleston to whose untiring zeal in the spread of genuine education we owe the transformtion of the Old Calcutta Public Library into the very useful Imperial Library of the present day. [...] In the Introduction Viscount Bryce emphasises the insufficiency of the volume of thought continuously applied to the work of life in relation to the vastness and complexity of national problems and suggests that our educational ideals should be to fit men to be at least explorers if not discoverers in the fields of science and learning ; to fit them to be leaders in the field of action not only [...] " The besetting sin of the scientist is to try to explain everything in terms of its origin instead of in terms of its full develoment." The fault of the defenders of a classical education is their identfication of the study of literature with that of language.