The Collegian&Progress Of India - a Fortnightly Journal of Indian Educational Progress in All Its Branch No. 1 March 1915

The primary schools are the lowest of such institutions and are intended to educate and raise the people of the soil while the secondary schools to which a comparatively limited number proceed are utilised for the development of eduction and expansion of knowledge amongst a class of people who as useful members of the commowealth are in a position to exercise a beneficial influence on thei [...] They should also endeavour to show to the world that the East is not only recovering its fomer position of supremacy in the arts and sciences but that India is at the same time training up a race of men who in the words of Milton the great poet and educationist shall be "enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and w [...] This is the history of Germany of Tacitus down to the Germany of the.. Carlovingian era and through the Germany of the middle ages to the latter-day Prussianized Germany we know so well. [...] Unwilling to withhold the due mead of praise even from the enemy whose contributions in the past to the world of Science and Literature have otherwise been considerable and that need not be unduly decried one is bound to take stock of the situation in the light of the terrible happenings around an sate-guard culture —the test and strength of which always is the protection of the weak and due res [...] In his edition and translation of the Sulva Sutras he was the first to explain and point out the significance of the oldest teaching of the Geometrical Science in India and his views as to the originality of the Hindus in this respect which was long contested by Western Historians of Mathematics have been fully confirmed by recent research.