The Bombay Educational Record

The schools are to exist for the education of Parsee boys and the poor and needy are to haVe a preference over those who can take care of themselves ; but AA to the nature of the education and all details it is most wisely left to the Trustees fur the time being and the trust will lie as supple and practical and as capable of being adapted to the actual necessities of the day in a hundred years [...] The only difference I can see between the teacher and the examiner is that the former has to apply his knowledge of his subject to the cases of a limited number of particular individual pupils of a certain age while the latter has to keep before his mind the general or average pupil of that age. [...] The greatness of the honour the pleasure of being again associated with the district which was the early home of my ancestors and to which the instincts of atavism have driven my daughter to return so dazzled my imagination that I didnot sufficiently apprehend the responsibility of the tusk which I am now called upon to perform. [...] Moreover there is nothing more extraordinary than the trifling character of the circumstances which will tilt the balance of our bodily condition in the direction of health or of disease or how insignificant are the precautions which prove sufficient to maintain onr minds clear cheerful and elastic and to render the exercise of our faculties a delight and a triumph instead of leaving us to la [...] Of course it may be objected that this method of learning a classical language eviscerates the good to be obtained from the disciplinary effects of the usually accepted process ; but in the first place it is merely a question of the stage at winch the grammar shonld be taken up for I am as much au admirer of fine scholarship as any one and in the next the mysteries of the grammar will be ma