Indian Education

A better state of affairs will ensue upon the complete realisation by the schoolmaster the parent and the boy that Parents or guardians...delegate to the Headmaster...the control which they are entitled to exercise..." and that " for breach of the school rules.a boy may be fined or otherwise punished at the discretion of the Headmaster." The appended reply of Government of September 8th to the [...] There has been no question of effecting a radical change in the status of the University with reference to Medical Examinations" or " of depriving the University of all control over the curricula and conduct of the different Medical Examinations leading to the Honours degrees." Nor was it contemplated that " the education of the students would be carried on " for five years " without the supervi [...] The first of these changes means a widening of the ideal of elementary education ' the decay of the old belief that a meagre stint of early training is sufficient to meet the needs of the poor who will earn their livelihood by humble toil ; and the slow retreat of parental selfishness which profits by the premature use of child labour before the advancement of a desire to secure for every child [...] The object of the new provsions was to secure that colleges which did not already provide for the training of students in the giving of religious instruction should provide a course of training designed to prepare the students to give such undenominational instruction in and explanations of the Bible as are suited to the capacities of children. [...] The Act of r906 which empowered on certain conditions money to be paid out of the rates in aid of the feeding of.children ; the clauses in the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 19°7 which permitted the establishment of play centres and required the medical examination of children attending school ; and the subsequent action of the medical department of the Board of Education have all