Practical Education: A Monograph on Education in India

We need not wonder at it because was not the suply of competent" and trustworthy servants of' the Company which involved the acquaintance of the Company's "native" servants with the language modes of thought and ideas of their masters one of the chief reasons which induced Lord William Bentinek to initiate the present system of education? [...] Yet the schools remain the same; and hundreds of boys and girls rush to the present day Fifth Caste schools and colleges but the new caste cannot absorb them all and hence the question at the end of oyurse What shall I do'?" Our Education begins and ends with words 3. That unemployment in India is cofined more to the "educated" is well-known and this is is felt more keenly because after all [...] The school is not the place to teach a boy how to plough—his father can do it better on his farm—but in the school alone can the boy learn the great importance of seed selection or the laws of conserving moisture so important in a dry country like India or the comparative value of manures. [...] our melancholy duty to examine nearly 570 candidates more than half of whom were apprently quite unfit to stand the test while quite a half of the rest seemed unfit to be in the B. A. class at all It must be confessed that at the end of his college career many a student leaves the portals of the University without a grasp of the nature and use of the articles and the distinction between activ [...] The vernacular is the language in which the vast majority carry on their daily avocations and as Mayhew says "The use of English as a means of instruction and the inability of Government to develop the vernaculars have widened.the"Liberal Education 37 gulf that separates the intelligentsia of India from the masses.