Indian Education

And the House of Lords would be hardly likely to resist a proposal to change the proportion of representative managers upon the committees of management of rate-aided schools especially if the change were accompanied by an increase in the Treasury Grant sufficient to enable the best of the denominational schools to carry on their work But it is in the sphere of administration that the influence [...] " The evil of the examination system " he writes " does not lie so much in the cramming to which the weak student has to submit himself in order to pass as in the lasting damage it does by wasting the time of the strong student to whom at present the attainment of a high position in the final tests is often of vital importance." It is in one word "originality" which is the quality of most val [...] And above and beyond the individual ends of the special studies are the grand ends of education as a whole the cultivation of mind and character the perfection of the powers of judgment the preparation for life the progress of the human race. [...] The left-hand pan is lightly supported by the fingers of the left-hand while the weights are put on the right-hand one when the experimenter standing a yard away judges of equilibrium by the oscillation of the tongue to one side or the other. [...] A description of the next class of balance together with a discussion of the best methods of obtaining the last place of the setting up and care of balances of the work that can be done with them of the large balance weighing up to 2 kilos.