The Progress of Education. March 1927

More recently it was the union of the astute Persian intellect with the virile strength of the Arab that made the glories of the Saracenic civilisation possible. [...] How easily this could be put an end to if every Hindu were forced to read the Koran and if every Mahomedan were forced to study the Gita I After all the highest religion is one and the consciousness that the noble ideas of one book are also to be found in the other would go miles to break down the barriers of prejudice and ignorance the evil parents of religious fanaticism. [...] The question of the variation of sujects so as to produce the least amount of fatigue and to arange our time—table with a reference to the fatiguability " of time and subjects would be of great help to the teachers and the taught alike. [...] They serve also as a good guide for the advocates of the vernacular as the best medium of istruction or the distribution of scholarships on the standard of intelligence. [...] I take a year to mean the period from the seventh month of the earlier year to the sixth month of the next year.